Kiran Shivahar Dongardive Small and innocent students are sitting in the school premises. in front of them a lady is holding a snake in her hand with her entire family including her husband and two year old children giving information about the snake. The students are engrossed. Many emotions like surprise and fear are playing in the minds of people who see people holding snakes in their hands. Many misconceptions about snake s are disappearing from the mind. The fear of snakes is disappearing. The villagers have crowded the event. Vanita Borade, a snake-friendly woman, pulls out a very venomous species of snake. They make sure that the snake does not attack. Because even though she catch snakes, she do not remove the venomous teeth of the snake and harm the snake like the people of Garudi. Suddenly a very enthusiastic youn g man comes out of the village. If a woman handles a snake so easily, why can't I? Such an ego is in his mind. He picks up the venomous snake and throws it around his neck. He shout loudly that "I am the incarnation of Lord Shiva". Everyone's cable flies. The snake is poisonous. What if I bite this head? What if he fell on the body of a child or a villager without biting the head? One or two thousand doubts ... what to do? Vanita borade pull the snake from his hand, the angry snake take bite on her hand. The skin cracks and the teeth fall out (of the body) and Vanita Borade gets a dry bite, she reads. Her husband D. Bhaskar gives them mental support and in front of the people they join hands with the couple. "We will no longer carry venomous snakes in any event". This story, which seems impossible and dreamy, but is is very true. In Mehkar this snake-friendly family is live up today. Vanita Borade was born in a hilly village in Naigaon. From an early age, she was fond of catching snakes. Their routine is to catch snakes, monitor them, report them to an event and release the snakes to a safe place in the forest within two days before a forest officer. Garudi girls catch snakes since childhood but it is not a classical method. They also pull out snake teeth. Therefore, it becomes a means of subsistence for snakes. Garudi keeps the snake hungry. Many snakes die of starvation. The snake is completely carnivorous but Garudi feeds it milk from the hands of devotees. Two to three days after Nagpanchami, there are examples of milk-drinking snakes dying of diarriea. So it has to be said that neither Garudi nor his daughters are friends of the snake. vanita Borade and her serpent-loving husband D. Bhaskar catches the snake, why? We may have such a question. The reason for this is that if a snake goes out in a human settlement, in a house, at a door, anywhere, four or five people attack the snake with sticks in their hands. Sometimes a snake attacks a man. This snake can bite a man or a man cannot sit still without killing a snake. So a creature, of course, is going to be a human or a snake. In such a case, the task of catching the snake properly and releasing it in a safe place is to save the life of a person, says Vanita Borade. They keep the snakes two days to study the snake, to learn its habits. In the meantime, the snake's prey is kept alive (live rat, sail, lizard) in front of the snake . They take care that snakes do not go hungry. In the meantime, if someone calls for eradication of superstition or other awakening in schools and colleges, they take away the caught snake. Holding live snakes in their hands, they create people's concentration and mentality. Bhaskar in his charming style gives anonymous information about his species of snake to the group. Vanita Borade's goal is to er adicate the ignorance about snakes and to give protection to snakes. For this reason, in Nashik, he set up the Snake and Reptiles Protection Institute, which provides scientific A TO Z INDIA ● APRIL 2022 ● PAGE 16 Recipient of President's (Nari Sanman) Award Women's Honor Sarpamitra Vanita Borade: