What Swasthik Iyengar has said about Traditional tattooing in India
2 quotes · 1 episode · Jun 30, 2025
Swasthik Iyengar, South Indian-born tattoo artist and painter known as Ganga Ma, based in New York, has been quoted on Traditional tattooing in India 2 times in 1 episode of Seekers of the Eternal, most recently on June 30, 2025. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Iyengar described the belief behind her grandmother's kolam tattoos that negative entities or illness become trapped in the exitless design and are expelled.
“any negative entity will go to that point where the tattoo is and trap itself inside the matrix because there's no exit in a column design”
Seekers of the Eternal: Ep 66 - Swasthik Iyengar - Sacred Tattoos (Jun 30, 2025) · Listen from 9:07
Iyengar said modern Indian street tattooing was heavily influenced by English sailors arriving at the Bombay docks.
“that was heavily, very heavily influenced by Western culture and the bringing about of the English sailors to the Bombay docks”
Seekers of the Eternal: Ep 66 - Swasthik Iyengar - Sacred Tattoos (Jun 30, 2025) · Listen from 10:15
Episodes
Ep 66 - Swasthik Iyengar - Sacred TattoosSeekers of the Eternal · Jun 30, 2025 · 1 h 13 min
Palehorse talks with tattoo artist Swasthik Iyengar (Ganga Ma) about her grandmother's healing kolam tattoos, devotional art, Hindu deities and the spiritual side of tattooing.
Others on Traditional tattooing in India
- Palehorse · 1 quote
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