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I converted a problem into an opportunity.
I got married at 24. It was an arranged marriage.
My life is a brave one. I didn't put any restrictions.
The most difficult thing is changing people's mindset.
There should be awareness on menstrual hygiene among men as well.
The choice is yours: Do you want to exist, or do you want to live?
The government should include menstrual hygiene in the curriculum.
I have not hung a single award on my walls, including the Padma Shri.
I always say, 'Be near science and technology, and you will never fail.'
What kept me going was my desire to provide a hygiene product for my wife.
I didn't take the money route because I saw my parents struggle for survival.
I'm ecstatic to be known as pad man, as it makes a difference to women's lives.
My wife gone, my mum gone, ostracised by my village. I was left all alone in life.
The taboo regarding menstruation exists across the world, even among the educated.
You can send women to the Moon or Mars later. First, provide sanitary pads to them.
To break the age-old taboos and to see girls and women use pads was a difficult task.
Being the son of a handloom weaver, I have knowledge of cotton and some other material.
The world has a shortage of solution providers. Everybody want to be in the 'Forbes' list.
If you chase a girl, the girl won't like you. Do your job simply, the girl will chase you.
Luckily, I'm not educated. If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop.
My nature is such that even if I failed 9,999 times, I'll attempt for the 10,000th time again.
Even if I can take sanitary napkins to 10% of the poor women in India, it will be big achievement.
To help my mother, I started working as a workshop helper. There I learned welding and other tools.
My vision is to make India into a 100% sanitary-pad-using country. Menstruation is no more a taboo.
Why buy sanitary napkins from multinationals when we can make them at home and generate employment?
'Padman' was about my early life and struggles, including my wife calling me a psycho and leaving me.
I don't have any plans to make money for myself. All I wish to do is empower rural women in our country.
There are two kinds of students: those who study and work to survive, while others who want to be achievers.
The strong creation created by God in the world is not the lion, not the elephant, not the tiger - the girl.
We keep discussing nuclear power and other issues, but we should spare a thought to the basic needs of our women.
Quality napkins are made in villages at a cost of just Rs 2 per piece with my simple and cost-effective machines.
Every father, brother, and husband should know about menstruation. It is not just about women; it is about men, too.
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.
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?'
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.
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.
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.
My plea is that don't wait for a girl to become a woman to empower them. Empower a girl's life by giving sanitary pads to them. With pads, we give them wings.
Most of the students whom I have lectured were inquisitive to learn and contribute towards my vision. So, the youth who want to achieve in life can do a lot for society.
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.
India and other developing nations need non-farm sector activity. So what we are doing, we are giving small microbusiness to the rural women, especially the farmers' wives.
I have been working in north Indian villages, so I know the truth. Compared to the south Indian states, north India is less developed, and there's little awareness on menstrual hygiene.
It took me eight years of trial and error to design the machines that would make low-cost pads: just Rs 2 each, compared to those made by the MNCs that are priced anywhere above Rs 6 to Rs 100.
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.
When I tell a foreign audience that 90 per cent of Indian women have no access to sanitary napkin, there is a visible disbelief. But there is hardly a ripple when I say the same thing to an Indian crowd.
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.
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?
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?
I had been getting queries from regional filmmakers to do a movie based on my work. But I did not want my work and mission - to create awareness on menstrual hygiene - to be restricted to only a part of the country. In fact, I wanted to do the movie in Hollywood.
When I speak a serious subject in an informal and humorous way, it has bigger impact. So much so, when BBC made a small documentary, they first thought of having a voiceover for me. The producer liked my English so much, he said they were retaining my original voice.