Updated On: 22 September, 2021 10:06 PM IST | Mumbai | Anju Maskeri
The new tattoo designs filling the books of ink artistes are a tribute to the weird, if not tragic, 2020. Millennials explain why they want to remember a year they-d rather forget

Trushna Kachhadiya gets a Coronavirus Negative tattoo inked on her arm at artist Vikas Malanis Bodycanvas Tattoos and Piercings in Malad. A post-graduate student of media and marketing, Kachhadiya says the tattoo is to honour COVID-19 warriors. Pic/Satej
Gayatri Kashyap, a sociology student at Delhi-s Hindu College, admittedly has a penchant for "random" tattoos. When she lost her cellphone a couple of years ago, she got the device tattooed on her forearm. "It looks more like a cake of soap, though," she laughs. It-s the first of many tattoos that the 20-year-old has got since. Her latest, inked right below the phone-that-looks-like-soap, reads, -Wash your damn hands-. The design is presumably an honour to the advice given in order to avoid contracting the Coronavirus. "It might seem like dark humour playing out, but my grandfather recently caught the virus and is recovering." For Kashyap, the tattoo is an indelible reminder of a strange year that was marred by a pandemic, forcing us to work from home and take measures that were once unfathomable. -You might look at the tattoo and say, WTF!- But that-s 2020 for you."
