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Arunachalam Muruganantham (born 12 October 1961) also known as Padman is a social entrepreneur from Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, India. He is the inventor of a low-cost sanitary pad-making machine and is credited for innovating grassroots mechanisms for generating awareness about traditional unhygienic practices around menstruation in rural India.
Mar 4, 2014 · Arunachalam Muruganantham has helped bring cheap sanitary pads to rural India, by inventing a simple machine to make them - but it nearly cost him his marriage.
Dec 21, 2017 · We're talking about the real-life superhero of India, the original pad man, Arunachalam Muruganantham. He was the first man in the world to wear a sanitary pad and experience the discomfort women go through for five straight days every month--barring the physical pain, of course.
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Arunachalam Muruganantham created a system of simple machines to make modern sanitary napkins — giving millions of women in his home country and around the world access to hygiene.
Mar 11, 2022 · Padman Arunachalam Muruganantham shared snippets of his journey - from being called names and ridiculed by his village for relentlessly pursuing the need for low-cost sanitary napkins to becoming...
- Poorvi Gupta
When he realized his wife had to choose between buying family meals and buying her monthly "supplies," Arunachalam Muruganantham vowed to help her solve the problem of the sanitary pad. His research got very very personal -- and led him to a powerful business model.
It all began in 1998, when Arunachalam Muruganantham, the son of poor handloom weavers in South India, realised that his wife was using old rags to deal with menstruation because she couldn’t...
