Bringing up Kari
                                    – Dhan Gopal Mukerji

Kari comes under the care of the author

The author was nine years old when he started looking after Kari, a baby elephant. Kari was five months old and only a bit taller than the author at that time.

Kari lived in a kind of tent that had a thatched roof supported by thick tree stumps. Hence, he freely could move about and bump against the poles with no fear of…