Hasya: Towards a Poetics of the Comic

Amidst a whole range of criticism and derision that laughter has received down the ages, question still lingers: why “One daren’t even laugh any more”? The comic, according to Aristotle, is associated with ridiculous or ugly. It constitutes deformity an error leans towards something which mean. comedy, on other hand, form low art consisting what base inferior. This view comic comedy largely been accepted forwarded by West. They have looked upon one-dimensional condemnation. As Lisa Trahair correctly states, “to comprehend risk overlooking structure incomprehensibility crucial its operation”. Although often considered as synonym for humour laughter, hâsya, much more than that. Hâsya always enabled us understand comic’s implications in object world vice versa. not only enigmatic but also esoteric nature. Through select study VidûSaka (the deformed clown Sanskrit theatre) two poems— one Muktaka Nind?-stuti, this paper intends read potentialities hâsya an-other just mode gay affirmation subversion “free play” (ju), within space exists between self other(s). This, however, no means attempt conceive disruptive event intentions ‘Empire writing back’, rather wish hermeneutically harmony dimensions Indian aesthetics, so poetics can be retrieved reclaimed.