MALAPPURAM: Kudumshree hotel in Malappuram offers free food to customers as Vava Suresh recovered from snake bike treatment. Free meals is given at Cafe Kudumbashree hotel in Vandoor. When the diners arrived at the counter to pay, the cashier refused to accept the money. The food served included rice, sambar, fish curry, pickles, curry, chammanti, masala curry, pappadam, pickles and payasam.

KC Nirmala, the manager of the hotel, is behind this idea. Nirmala said that when she came to know that Vava Suresh was in the hospital after being bitten by a snake, she had decided to serve free food when he returned. Nirmala said she had discussed the matter with other Kudumbasree members and they agreed. She told the media that the free food was provided as a token of gratitude to Vava Suresh who has come down to help others without any reward.