India, Jan. 16 -- When a snake is sighted in a housing society or neighbourhood, people usually panic, they rush indoors, shut doors, a few people gather with sticks and a general sense of fear takes over. However, for 49-year-old Jyoti Raghavan, snake sightings are an ordinary part of her life.

Raghavan moved to Malibu Town in Sector 47 in 2018. Since then, she has rescued hundreds of snakes across the city, earning a reputation as Gurugram's only woman snake rescuer.

Her journey as a rescuer, she said, began nearly 15 years ago, while she was living in Dwarka, Delhi. According to Raghavan, one winter afternoon, she heard people shouting "snake" repeatedly in her society. "When I went to check, I saw a majestic cobra being beaten with ...