It is Diwali, and the entire country is busy celebrating the festival of lights, except for a small village in Andhra Pradesh. Just like for the past nearly 200 years this year too, there are no Diwali celebrations in Ponnanapalem village of Srikakulam.
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According to village elders some two hundred years ago a baby died of snakebite and two oxen also lost their lives on the day of Nagula Chavithi.