FRH (Future for Religious Heritage) Photo Competition 2023
2023 Winner and finalists
The winner and finalists of the FRH Photo Competition 2023 were selected at the Jury meeting held on 7 December 2023. The competition closed with 2,084 photographs from 114 countries from Asia, Africa, North America, South America and Europe.
When the tattoo defeated casteism
In the late nineteenth century, low-caste Hindus in the eastern state of Chhattisgarh first began tattooing their bodies and faces as an act of devotion and defiance after being forbidden to enter the temples and forced to use separate wells. The Ramnamis, as followers of the Ramnami Samaj religious movement are called, tattooed the Hindu god Ram's name on their bodies as a message to higher-caste Indians that god is everywhere and already embedded in them, regardless of social status.