Arunachalam Muruganantham Quotes

Arunachalam Muruganantham

Profession : Businessman

Birth : November 25, 1961

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.

Arunachalam Muruganantham

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?

Arunachalam Muruganantham

'Padman' was about my early life and struggles, including my wife calling me a psycho and leaving me.

Arunachalam Muruganantham

The strong creation created by God in the world is not the lion, not the elephant, not the tiger - the girl.

Arunachalam Muruganantham

I may fail today, but if I have another idea tomorrow, maybe it will work.

Arunachalam Muruganantham

My wife gone, my mum gone, ostracised by my village. I was left all alone in life.

Arunachalam Muruganantham

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.

Arunachalam Muruganantham

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?'

Arunachalam Muruganantham

I know that if I had got educated, I might have ended up as a call-center employee.

Arunachalam Muruganantham

Being the son of a handloom weaver, I have knowledge of cotton and some other material.

Arunachalam Muruganantham

We keep discussing nuclear power and other issues, but we should spare a thought to the basic needs of our women.

Arunachalam Muruganantham

I got married at 24. It was an arranged marriage.

Arunachalam Muruganantham

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.

Arunachalam Muruganantham

My vision is to make India into a 100% sanitary-pad-using country. Menstruation is no more a taboo.

Arunachalam Muruganantham

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.

Arunachalam Muruganantham

If you chase a girl, the girl won't like you. Do your job simply, the girl will chase you.

Arunachalam Muruganantham

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.

Arunachalam Muruganantham

My wife was gone, all other girls failed to cooperate, so I decided to wear a pouch of animal blood myself and test out my pads by wearing them myself. The discomfort I felt for those five days cannot be explained in words; I bow to every woman on earth for going through this every month.

Arunachalam Muruganantham

The choice is yours: Do you want to exist, or do you want to live?

Arunachalam Muruganantham

I'm ecstatic to be known as pad man, as it makes a difference to women's lives.

Arunachalam Muruganantham