They can get quite aggressive when cornered if you trying to capture it but generally, like most snakes, they prefer giving humans and bigger mammals like cows, horse etc the slip.. inko chidiya, rats, mice, smaller prey mangta.
The black mamba otoh, has been known to give chase.. imagine !
The Russel's viper is the real killer snake of India and Pak, max fatalities, gives birth to live young, and likes the cozy warmth of human dwellings.. not a burrowing snake, it prefers to get comfortable in a pile of firewood, or behind a bori of grain or something.
Farmers go for potty in the field and never return, fatt se kat leta