Interview with Arunachalam Muruganantham- The Real Padman Hero of India
“Grab the Opportunity – It won’t be lying around on the ground!”
“The Sanitary Napkin Man” may sound an awkward title, but is a resounding Google search – about 2,55,000 results in 0.37 seconds – all about Arunachalam Muruganantham - a social entrepreneur who has empowered women in a way no one before him has.
He is the inventor of a low-cost sanitary pad making machine and has innovated grass-roots mechanisms for generating awareness about traditional unhygienic practices around menstruation in rural India. His mini-machines, which can manufacture sanitary pads for less than a third of the cost of commercial pads, have been installed in 23 of the 29 states of India. He is currently planning to expand the production of these machines to 106 nations.
Pixr8 interviewed the great...