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The idea came from my wife, since in our village, women cannot afford to buy sanitary pads. When I asked my wife, she told me we would have to cut down half of our milk budget to buy sanitary pads. Moreover, while raw materials for sanitary pads cost 10 paise, the end product was sold for 40 times that price. So, I decided to create it on my own.
— Arunachalam Muruganantham
Tags: village, wife, me, women

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