Comments on: Where in Karachi?

By: seskey

seskey — Thu, 08 May 2008 10:52:27 +0000

mouth organ bajanay wala hathi and ride on the massive animal wow, by the WAY thats is the ONLY Green patch Oxidising City polluted area. hope it stays there for our grand children

By: extiinct

extiinct — Thu, 08 May 2008 09:50:57 +0000

We used to drive by Karachi Zoo on our way to school…catching a glimpse of the elephant used to be the highlight of our drive.

By: salmakhan

salmakhan — Thu, 08 May 2008 07:15:12 +0000

Nice to hear about Karachi Zoo…..good old days.

By: khirocks

khirocks — Wed, 07 May 2008 23:51:16 +0000

Good post! I went to the zoo during my childhood, dont even remember it clearly now. Now, I plan to visit this place on my next trip to Pakistan :)

By: johny

johny — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:24:38 +0000

I went to this zoo around 16 years back when I was here for Vacations ( I used to live abroad),

I have no memory of the place, but this post has given me a desire to visit it again ! :D

By: balma

balma — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:26:44 +0000

yeh figure of speech thaa, not exact truth:-)

By: tariqkhanani

tariqkhanani — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:24:51 +0000

@balma

my father thought I was a goochi poochi too when he saw me feeding the same ducks in the same pond

those ducks must be very old now :p

By: tariqkhanani

tariqkhanani — Wed, 07 May 2008 05:04:23 +0000

i used to go there in summer vacations during my schooling, and man i was excited about it. we usually returned home by Taanga, that was fun

By: balma

balma — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:23:58 +0000

Last time I went in to see this (and the only time) was 35 years ago, there was this hijRaa type person acting like a woman. Even as a kid I could tell that he was talking dirty, because I remember my mother and her neighborhood friend (bengali neighbor) getting annoyed.
But, the classic thing during that trip to the Gandhi Garden was our neighborhood aunti, who was Bengali, pointing to a little bird and saying…baazi, voh uloo kaa paThaa daikhyae.
And us brothers were all excited that …auntie nay gaali dee hae, auntie nay gaali dee hae…. Moral of the story: gaali in one language is a normal statement in another. This was a couple of years after Bhutto, Yahya, with the help of Jamat-e-Islami and army had destroyed Pakistan….Pretty soon, bengali auntie with our other Bengali neighbors were sent off to a temporary shaamiaanaa in our neighborhood to be sent to the erstwhile East Pakistan. Their place was taken over by the hordes of Biharis and other Urdu speakers who were travelling in the other direction from Bangladesh.
Time flies.

I have been to Gandhi Garden couple of times lately. Though it has much fewer animals, the place really looks much nicer, cleaner, and greener.
When my goochi poochi was feeding the ducks, I thought to myself that many many decades ago probably my father thought I was a goochi poochi too when he saw me feeding the same ducks in the same pond.
There was no haathi though!

By: shamsi

shamsi — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:18:36 +0000

ahhhhhhhhh gandhi garden…. Late Motee (the elephant)….. Late Kangan (the tigeress)

Mughal Garden ~ Baradari

Zoological Garden Karachi aka Gandhi Garden @ Nishter Road (Lawrence Road) Karachi – 33 acres of area established in 1878

http://www.karachizoo.com.pk