Video: Kashmir's Award-Winning Artist Forced To Drive Auto Rickshaw To Make Ends Meet
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In a series of tweets, Khawar Khan Achakzai shared about his encounter with the award-winning artisan in the streets of Kashmir.
An award-winning papier-mache artisan from Kashmir who has won several awards and accolades has resorted to driving an auto-rickshaw in order to support himself. Recently, a Twitter user revealed that he was left ''disheartened'' when he took an auto and recognised the driver to be Syed Aijaz Shah, an extremely gifted artist. In a series of tweets, Khawar Khan Achakzai shared about his encounter with the award-winning artisan in the streets of Kashmir. The only worth (but disheartening) thing about today's traffic jam was taking an auto and recognising the driver to be Syed Aijaz, an award winning paper-machie artisan who has received numerous accolades. His work has been recognised and awarded in South Africa, (1/n) pic.twitter.com/IfTglwGSvl his skills to students all over the world. But circumstances forced him take over driving a Tuk-Tuk. Arts and crafts in Kashmir make a meagre amount of money. He could not feed his family from it. To him, Tuk-Tuk does better than awards and recognitions. (3/n) pic.twitter.com/3pYNHyijo2 Aijaz Sahab is a wonderful human being. He still finds time for his art every day, morning and evening. He spends his day on his Auto and at the end retires back to his beautiful world of colour and craftsmanship; working on his unfinished murals and unworked dreams. pic.twitter.com/wmH8itvM6y
''The only worth (but disheartening) thing about today's traffic jam was taking an auto and recognising the driver to be Syed Aijaz, an award winning paper-machie artisan who has received numerous accolades. His work has been recognised and awarded in South Africa,'' read the tweet.
