Thiruvananthapuram area’s lingua franca

If you order 'Mashavadakam' in Mani's tea shop at Karamana in Thiruvananthapuram, you will get a discount of Re1 from the the actual price of Rs5 for the popular snack 'Uzhunnuvada'. Mashavadakam is the Sanskrit name for Uzhunnuvada and this is Mani's small contribution to the development of Sanskrit language in this hamlet of Karamana. Vishwa Samskrita Pratishthanam and Samskrita Bharathi have joined together to promote the ancient language in this area. 2,000 people live here, and half can understand Sanskrit while a major chunk can communicate in Sanskrit.