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Getting Inked

The phrase "Body Art" fasc inated me for quite sometime. It was those days when I used Orkut for online social networking. There used to be a column: Body Art. I could never fill it as I had none. Some people would fill that information as tattoo. Coming from a typical Indian middle-class family I had hardly seen anyone with a tattoo. I often wondered what a tattoo was like. When I started working, I came across a few people who had tattoo. There would be casual conversations what the tattoo was like, did it pain, and most important, how much did it cost? The people gave varied answers. The location of tattoo would decide how much it would pain, the size would decide the cost etc. etc. But I heard no one talking about anything about the designs. I had read sometime that doodles are the interpretations of ones hidden desires. I am not sure why, but I felt tattoo also represented same. Then, I started looking around. I found someone at work place, who has tattooed Ron...