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The Economic Times
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India’s most unusual village where cobras roam freely through homes and snakes are treated like family

Imagine walking into a house and being told there might be a cobra resting quietly nearby — and nobody in the room seems remotely worried.

That is everyday life in Shetphal, a small village in Maharashtra that has earned the nickname “Snake Village of India.”

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