Name: 【TED】Arunachalam Muruganantham: How I started a sanitary napkin revolution! (Arunachalam Muruganantham: How I started a sanitary napkin revolution!)
Uploaded: 2013-01-20T18:24:50.000Z
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So I tried to do a small good thing for my wife.

So what I did, I'd gone back to my early marriage days.

you tried to impress your wife. I did the same.

My wife replied, "None of your business."

Then, being her husband, I ran behind her

I don't even use that cloth to clean my two-wheeler.

Then I understood this -- adapting that unhygienic method

Then I immediately asked her, why are you [using] that unhygienic method?

She replied, I also know about [sanitary pads],

but myself and my sisters, if they start using that,

Then I was shocked. What is the connection between

I tried to impress my new wife by offering her a packet of sanitary pads.

I went to a local shop, I tried to buy her a sanitary pad packet.

and spreads a newspaper, rolls it into the newspaper,

gives it to me like a banned item, something like that.

I don't know why. I did not ask for a condom.

Then I took that pad. I want to see that. What is inside it?

that day I am touching the sanitary pad, first ever.

I must know: How many of the guys here have touched a sanitary pad?

They are not going to touch that, because it's not your matter.

Then I thought to myself, white substance, made of cotton --

oh my God, that guy is just using a penny value of raw material --

inside they are selling for pounds, dollars.

Why not make a local sanitary pad for my new wife?

That's how all this started, but after making a sanitary pad,

It's not like I can just check it in the lab.

I need a woman volunteer. Where can I get one in India?

Even in Bangalore you won't get [one], in India.

So only problem: the only available victim is my wife.

Then I made a sanitary pad and handed it to Shanti -- my wife's name is Shanti.

I will give you a surprise with a lot of tinsel paper rolled up with it.

Because it's an arranged marriage, not a love marriage.

So one day she said, openly, I'm not going to support this research.

Then other victims, they got into my sisters.

But even sisters, wives, they're not ready to support in the research.

That's why I am always jealous with the saints in India.

They are having a lot of women volunteers around them.

You know, without them even calling, they'll get a lot of women volunteers.

Then I used, tried to use the medical college girls.

Armstrong. Then Tenzing [and] Hillary, in Everest,

I wore a sanitary pad. I filled animal blood in a football bottle,

I tied it up here, there is a tube going into my panties,

while I'm walking, while I'm cycling, I made a press,

That makes me bow down to any woman in front of me

to give full respect. That five days I'll never forget --

the messy days, the lousy days, that wetness.

But here the problem is, one company is making napkin 

But I am also trying to make sanitary pad with the good cotton. It's not working.

That makes me to want to refuse to continue this research and research and research.

Not only financial crises, but because of the sanitary pad research,

I come through all sorts of problems, including

Why is this? I used medical college girls.

Finally, I came to know it is a special cellulose

derived from a pinewood, but even after that,

you need a multimillion-dollar plant like this

to process that material. Again, a stop-up.

Then I spend another four years to create my own

machine tools, a simple machine tool like this.

In this machine, any rural woman can apply the same

raw materials that they are processing in the multinational plant,

anyone can make a world-class napkin at your dining hall.

usually if anyone got a patent or an invention,

immediately you want to make, convert into this.

I never did this. I dropped it just like this,

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【TED】Arunachalam Muruganantham: How I started a sanitary napkin revolution! (Arunachalam Muruganantham: How I started a sanitary napkin revolution!)

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