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?'
To break the age-old taboos and to see girls and women use pads was a difficult task.
Even if I can take sanitary napkins to 10% of the poor women in India, it will be big achievement.
Why buy sanitary napkins from multinationals when we can make them at home and generate employment?
You can send women to the Moon or Mars later. First, provide sanitary pads to them.
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.