Young Hindu girls in Pakistan turn away from centuries-old face tattoos

UMERKOT, Pakistan: Grinding charcoal with a few drops of goat’s milk, 60-year-old Basran Jogi peers at the faces of two small Pakistani sisters preparing for their first tattoos. The practice of elder women needling delicate shapes onto the faces, hands, and arms of younger generations stretches back centuries in the Hindu villages that dot the southern border with India. “First draw two straight lines between the eyebrows,” Jogi instructs her friend poised with a sewing needle.

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