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Articles Matthew Gervais, an American evolutionary biologist has traced origins of laughter back to 4 million years when human beings became bipedal. Language appeared only 2 million years after the first laugh. ince then laughter and humour has occupied vital space in everyday life. An!ali Arora enumerates some lighter moments which occurred in her life because of her disability. .umour an! !isability has close association. 5isability an! persons with !isabilities are represente! with an element of humour in me!ia an! literature. $ personally feel that mocking at others is not the real import of humour. $nstea!: the ability to en=oy life situations particularly those: which are !iscomforting is the real humour. A!!ing a humorous element to the !ifficult situations: makes the conversation en=oyable. 4ith this view we can fin! humour everywhere aroun! us: even in situations which are not so pleasant. *his can be !ifficult an! unbelievable but un!oubte!ly important. As a !isable! person myself: $ know: an! many of my frien!s share with me the kin! of situations they an! $ face. *hese are generally situations of people7s response towar!s us as persons with !isability of any kin!. *o fin! humour in such situations is har!: at least: as a spontaneous response. .umour like other arts an! skill is learnt. 1or me: !isability has

given me the opportunity to fin! humour in many things. $t is e-perience! an! observe! that some people have so much ignorance about what $ as a visually impaire! person can !o. *his is not always about e!ucational capacity but generally: even recreational activities are a matter of surprise an! ama>ement for most. .ow people respon! to a sight of a visually impaire! person is interesting: insightful an! humorous to think over. 4hen $ think about such inci!ences: $ fin! humour in many of them. $ !on7t inten! to cast any aspersions on any bo!y but the fact remains that e-periences pertaining to my !isability have e-tra humour in them. $ cannot resist smiling at those whenever $ recollect them. *his is an age of customisation but see the e-tent to which customisation is taken for grante!. 1or e-ample: often strangers or sometimes even known people use the customise! language to !efine the activity: ?An=ali: !o you watch *+. $ mean: listen to *+@? 4hat goes in my min! at these points of time are series of 2uestion to fin! humour in innocently ignorant statements< $sn7t television an au!io; visual ai!@ $s television only watching an! is listening not involve!@ $sn7t the e-pression in 0nglish ?watching? use! only to !istinguish it from ?listening a ra!io@? *his customise! usage is interesting to look at. $ wish customisation like these were more creatively use! in services like banking: transportation: an! the like. &any more spora!ic instances arise that can have an element of humour. /omething like the following event is 2uite interesting. A visually impaire! man came out of the temple after !oing his poo=a. As he walke! away from the temple premises: a man calle! out from the back in the conventional style:?/oor!as =ee: (lease wait.? *he visually impaire! man was familiar with the usage of this e-pression an! so stoppe!. *he caller came walking very fast an! stoppe! near him an! hel! his han!s very tightly an! sai!: ?$ saw you worshipping an! was curious to ask something: if you !on7t min!.? *he visually impaire! man sai!: ?/ureA *ell me what is it@? ?$ was stan!ing ne-t to you when you were worshiping. $ saw you stan!ing with han!s fol!e!: eyes close! an! your lips moving in prayer of the Almighty. $ saw you !oing all this in the perfect way prayers are offere!A $ saw it allA 7 4ell: thank you:77 he sai! when all the while he was tempte! to say ?OA Bou mean: while $ was praying: you were observing me an! not praying@ 4hy !i! you come to the temple in the first place@

Anyway: what else@? ?All that was okay: an! perfectly performe!:? the man continue! with the same approving tone: ?,ut tell me why !o you nee! to come to the temple for prayers when you cannot see the "o!@? ?4ell:? sai! the visually impaire! man with a suppresse! smile: ?5oes one nee! to come to temple only to see the "o!@ $sn7t there something more in the atmosphere an! vibrations: which make a spiritual place so special@? ?O yes. Bou7re right in that sense. *emple an! other spiritual places have special significance. *he vibrations are strong an! peaceful. &ay be you as a blin! man can assess vibration better than us C your e-tra senses:? he pause! an! then continue!: ?,ut you can7t see the "o! as it is here in the templeA &ay $ tell you that it is so magnificent... an! gran!.. .an! ma=estic.. .an! beautifulA? ?$ beg your par!on@? sai! the visually impaire! man: ?"o!7s grace has to be e-perience! an! not seenA 4ho has ever seen the "o! with bo!ily eyes@ $ personally feel that it is more important that "o! shoul! be able to see you an! me. 3ight@ OA ,y the way: !on7t you close your eyes when in front of the i!ol of worship in the temple@ .ave you ever seen .im@ 5o you call seeing the i!ol as seeing the "o!@? *he stranger was left in his thoughts. *he blin! man knew that arguments like these coul!n7t be won by a!vancing forceful: logical an! rational reasons. (re=u!ice is far remote from truth than ignorance. $ remember some of the interesting responses to me as a chil! with !isability an! curiosities e-presse! to me. D$nnocently ignorant: as $ choose to callE As a chil! with visual impairment: somebo!y aske! me: ?.ow is it that you can eat foo! even without being able to see: how !oes it go straight in your mouth@? 4or!s coul! e-plain only a little. $ as a chil! coul! har!ly un!erstan! how to e-plain this. $ only looke! at her with surprise an! then smile! an! sai!: ?OA Bou mean: you keep a mirror to look into when eating foo!@ Or is it that you can see un!er your nose also: hmm@? $ sometimes feel that 2uestions like these perhaps cannot be answere! or e-plaine! in wor!s. .aving foun! humour in these 2uestions: the recollection of these events is precious an! en=oyable. $ can fin! humour an! amusement in everything that happens with me particularly that which relates to !isability an! en=oy it all.

Once while travelling in train: a man resentfully pointe!: ?5isable! people en=oy many benefits. Bou being visually impaire! must be travelling free of cost an! your escort also must have pai! only half the price of his ticket:? $ ha! to smile but thought: ?who woul! like to hav this an! many of such concession .mm@

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