What kept me going was my desire to provide a hygiene product for my wife. — Arunachalam Muruganantham Desire Copy Share Image
To help my mother, I started working as a workshop helper. There I learned welding and other tools. — Arunachalam Muruganantham Help Copy Share Image
I know that if I had got educated, I might have ended up as a call-center employee. — Arunachalam Muruganantham Educated Copy Share Image
Every father, brother, and husband should know about menstruation. It is not just about women; it is about men, too. — Arunachalam Muruganantham Brother Copy Share Image
The government should include menstrual hygiene in the curriculum. — Arunachalam Muruganantham Curriculum Copy Share Image
My life is a brave one. I didn't put any restrictions. — Arunachalam Muruganantham Brave Copy Share Image
To break the age-old taboos and to see girls and women use pads was a difficult task. — Arunachalam Muruganantham Difficult Copy Share Image
Social entrepreneurship is like a butterfly, sucking honey from a flower, but the flower won't die. They're helping the flower to make… — Arunachalam Muruganantham Business Copy Share Image
I suffered a lot when I tried to make sanitary napkins and promote the idea. My family - including my mother and… — Arunachalam Muruganantham Day Copy Share Image
I have not hung a single award on my walls, including the Padma Shri. — Arunachalam Muruganantham Award Copy Share Image
India and other developing nations need non-farm sector activity. So what we are doing, we are giving small microbusiness to the rural… — Arunachalam Muruganantham Developing Copy Share Image
There should be awareness on menstrual hygiene among men as well. — Arunachalam Muruganantham Awareness Copy Share Image
I had been getting queries from regional filmmakers to do a movie based on my work. But I did not want my… — Arunachalam Muruganantham Awareness Copy Share Image
My plea is that don't wait for a girl to become a woman to empower them. Empower a girl's life by giving… — Arunachalam Muruganantham Girl Copy Share Image
My wife gone, my mum gone, ostracised by my village. I was left all alone in life. — Arunachalam Muruganantham Alone Copy Share Image
We keep discussing nuclear power and other issues, but we should spare a thought to the basic needs of our women. — Arunachalam Muruganantham Keep Copy Share Image
I don't have any plans to make money for myself. All I wish to do is empower rural women in our country. — Arunachalam Muruganantham Country Copy Share Image
The world has a shortage of solution providers. Everybody want to be in the 'Forbes' list. — Arunachalam Muruganantham Everybody Copy Share Image
It took me eight years of trial and error to design the machines that would make low-cost pads: just Rs 2 each,… — Arunachalam Muruganantham Computers Copy Share Image
I didn't take the money route because I saw my parents struggle for survival. — Arunachalam Muruganantham Money Copy Share Image
'Padman' was about my early life and struggles, including my wife calling me a psycho and leaving me. — Arunachalam Muruganantham Early Copy Share Image
I have been working in north Indian villages, so I know the truth. Compared to the south Indian states, north India is… — Arunachalam Muruganantham Awareness Copy Share Image
When I tell a foreign audience that 90 per cent of Indian women have no access to sanitary napkin, there is a… — Arunachalam Muruganantham Audience Copy Share Image
Why buy sanitary napkins from multinationals when we can make them at home and generate employment? — Arunachalam Muruganantham Employment Copy Share Image
The strong creation created by God in the world is not the lion, not the elephant, not the tiger - the girl. — Arunachalam Muruganantham Creation Copy Share Image
