Inside Kashmir’s growing youth tattoo movement

Inside Kashmir’s growing youth tattoo movement

Catharsis in ink — Despite being forbidden under Islam, a wave of tattoo shops are springing up in India-administered Kashmir. Saqib Mugloo spoke to those on both ends of the needle. It’s a cold January day in Srinagar, the largest city and summer capital of Indian-administered Kashmir. In keeping with the past few years, the region has seen little snowfall, which makes for an unsettling change in a place once blanketed by thick layers of white.…