Words matter. These are the best Arunachalam Muruganantham Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Quality napkins are made in villages at a cost of just Rs 2 per piece with my simple and cost-effective machines.
I never thought someone would make a film on my story.
I have accumulated no money but I accumulate a lot of happiness. If you get rich, you have an apartment with an extra bedroom – and then you die.
I am becoming a solution provider. I’m very happy. I don’t want to make this as a corporate entity. I want to make this as a local sanitary pad movement across the globe.
When I work in the remotest villages, it reminds me of who I am… India is not built on 14 metros and 100 cities. It’s made up of 600,000 villages.
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.
Wherever I went and spoke about menstrual hygiene, I was beaten up by people. I used to cover my cheeks with both my hands whenever I went to speak on the subject, so how could I ever imagine that someone would make a film on such a topic?
My wife gone, my mum gone, ostracised by my village. I was left all alone in life.
There were offers from a few Bollywood filmmakers, but I was sceptical as to whether those films will do justice to my vision or even my life. I was also apprehensive because what if I sign an agreement and give the rights to some filmmaker, and he shelves the project?
I converted a problem into an opportunity.
Luckily, I’m not educated. If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop.
Nobody in the society will talk about menstruation… it’s a taboo in my country. That’s why I’m branded by society as a psycho.
My vision is to make India into a 100% sanitary-pad-using country. Menstruation is no more a taboo.
A lot of people making a lot of money, billion, billions of dollars accumulating. Why are they coming for, finally, for philanthropy? Why the need for accumulating money, then doing philanthropy? What if one decided to start philanthropy from the day one?
A male can be a boy, a man, a love/husband, a father, a grandfather, a great-grandfather, but they don’t have any knowledge what’s happening inside a woman’s body. That’s what I had learnt in my early married life.
My life is a brave one. I didn’t put any restrictions.
My nature is such that even if I failed 9,999 times, I’ll attempt for the 10,000th time again.
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?’
There are two kinds of students: those who study and work to survive, while others who want to be achievers.
Social entrepreneurship is like a butterfly, sucking honey from a flower, but the flower won’t die. They’re helping the flower to make pollination.
The strong creation created by God in the world is not the lion, not the elephant, not the tiger – the girl.
‘Padman’ was about my early life and struggles, including my wife calling me a psycho and leaving me.
You can send women to the Moon or Mars later. First, provide sanitary pads to them.
The choice is yours: Do you want to exist, or do you want to live?
I know that if I had got educated, I might have ended up as a call-center employee.
To help my mother, I started working as a workshop helper. There I learned welding and other tools.
I don’t have any plans to make money for myself. All I wish to do is empower rural women in our country.
The world has a shortage of solution providers. Everybody want to be in the ‘Forbes’ list.
Every father, brother, and husband should know about menstruation. It is not just about women; it is about men, too.
