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Even if I can take sanitary napkins to 10% of the poor women in India, it will be big achievement.

- Arunachalam Muruganantham
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To help my mother, I started working as a workshop helper. There I learned welding and other tools.

To break the age-old taboos and to see girls and women use pads was a difficult task.

I am the son of a hand-loom weaver. I have a connection with yarn. I thought, 'Why not try to make an affordable sanitary pad for my wife?'

I'm ecstatic to be known as pad man, as it makes a difference to women's lives.

I have not hung a single award on my walls, including the Padma Shri.

My argument is that there is already an automated machine to make pads. What I did - I reverse-engineered it to 'simple.' Anyone who wants to compete will have to come out with a simpler machine.

Imagine: I got patent rights to the only machine in the world to make low-cost sanitary napkins - a hot-cake product. Anyone with an MBA would immediately accumulate the maximum money. But I did not want to. Why? Because from childhood, I know no human being died because of poverty - everything happens because of ignorance.

Luckily, I'm not educated. If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop.

It took me eight years of trial and error to design the machines that would make low-cost pads: just Rs 2 each, compared to those made by the MNCs that are priced anywhere above Rs 6 to Rs 100.

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Even if I can take sanitary napkins to 10% of the poor women in India, it will be big achievement.

Even if I can take sanitary napkins to 10% of the poor women in India, it will be big achievement.

Even if I can take sanitary napkins to 10% of the poor women in India, it will be big achievement.

Even if I can take sanitary napkins to 10% of the poor women in India, it will be big achievement.

Even if I can take sanitary napkins to 10% of the poor women in India, it will be big achievement.

Even if I can take sanitary napkins to 10% of the poor women in India, it will be big achievement.

Even if I can take sanitary napkins to 10% of the poor women in India, it will be big achievement.

Even if I can take sanitary napkins to 10% of the poor women in India, it will be big achievement.

Even if I can take sanitary napkins to 10% of the poor women in India, it will be big achievement.

Even if I can take sanitary napkins to 10% of the poor women in India, it will be big achievement.

Even if I can take sanitary napkins to 10% of the poor women in India, it will be big achievement.

Even if I can take sanitary napkins to 10% of the poor women in India, it will be big achievement.

Even if I can take sanitary napkins to 10% of the poor women in India, it will be big achievement.

Even if I can take sanitary napkins to 10% of the poor women in India, it will be big achievement.

Even if I can take sanitary napkins to 10% of the poor women in India, it will be big achievement.