Answer:"Snake and the Mirror" is a short story by Vaikom Muhammad Basheer. The story is about a man who is bitten by a snake and his experience of the event. The story is set in a small village in Kerala, India.
The protagonist of the story is a young man who is working as a doctor in a small clinic. One day, he is bitten by a snake while he is sitting in his room. He is immediately taken to the hospital, where he is treated for the snake bite.
After he is discharged from the hospital, the doctor goes back to his room. He notices a mirror on the wall and realizes that he had never seen himself in a mirror before. The doctor becomes fascinated with his own reflection and spends hours looking at himself in the mirror.
As he continues to look at himself, the doctor begins to see the snake that had bitten him in the reflection. He becomes increasingly disturbed and afraid, and begins to see the snake everywhere he goes.
The doctor becomes obsessed with the snake and spends all his time trying to find it. He even goes into the forest to look for the snake, but he never finds it. Eventually, the doctor realizes that the snake was not real and that he had been hallucinating.
In the end, the doctor comes to a realization about himself. He realizes that he has been living his life in a way that is not true to himself, and that he needs to change. The story ends with the doctor walking away from the mirror, determined to make a change in his life.