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You are Jatin. Once you had a nerve-wracking experience when you were locked in a room with a big cobra. Narrate the incident and how you came out of that situation.
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was posted at a small place called Hoshiarpur in Punjab. Electricity used to be very irregular in the monsoon months of July and August. I can still remember it was 20th August, 2014. For the last two days, it had rained non-stop paralysing everything. But, being a doctor I could not stay indoors. I had to attend the patients in the hospital.
It was 7:30 in the night when I returned home tired. There was no electricity so we had to use lanterns or torch. I entered my bedroom as I wanted to change and relax for some time. As I entered the room and closed the room, I heard a thud. To my shock and fear a cobra, black in colour, appeared near the door. I had a very small torch with me using which I could see the enormous serpent sitting coiled. As there was only one door, I could not rush out of the room. I just sat on my bed and tried to call the servant.
I called my servant to the bathroom door and told him of my predicament and instructed him to fetch a lantern and a ladder. After another long wait, I heard continuous voices, followed by the scraping of the ladder against the outer wall of the house. When the lantern was passed inside the room, I turned my head realising that the cobra was behind me. I saw it lying near the bedroom door two feet away.
Leaning forward very slowly, I picked up the heavy bath-mat, raised it high and let it fall as the cobra was sliding over the floor towards me. Fortunately, I judged my aim accurately and the bath-mat crashed down on the cobra’s neck six inches from its head. I took a hasty stride to the veranda door and in a moment was outside among the crowd of men armed with sticks and carrying lanterns.
All of them entered the bedroom and caught hold of cobra on a stick as it was hurt and almost paralysed by my hit. It was taken out to the fields and I thanked God to save me from a life and death struggle with a big snake in the locked room.