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This photograph taken on July 14, 2025 shows six-year-old Pooja, posing for the camera as she adorns an indigenous tattoo inked on her 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 Photo)
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