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Aakhri Khattaat
Scott Carney recently wrote about the dying art of Urdu calligraphy, and detailed how a small group of khattaat (calligraphers) who run one of the few handwritten papers in the world, face extinction because of widespread use of the Urdu typeface.
He's also found one possible way to preserve Urdu calligraphy: getting a tattoo. (ELHAM)
July 10, 2007
