This photograph taken on July 14, 2025 shows artist Guddi Manthar (L), drawing an indigenous tattoo on seven-year-old Champa’s face at the Jogi Colony in Umerkot, a Hindu-majority district in Pakistan. 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. In recent years, however, as rural Hindu communities in Muslim-majority Pakistan become more connected to nearby cities, many young women have opted out of the «old ways». (Photo by Asif HASSAN / AFP)
