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Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.33,0:00:05.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I tried to do a small good thing for my wife.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.42,0:00:07.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It makes me to stand here,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.78,0:00:10.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the fame, the money I got out of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.43,0:00:13.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what I did, I'd gone back to my early marriage days.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.97,0:00:15.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What you did in the early marriage days,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.90,0:00:18.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you tried to impress your wife. I did the same.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.71,0:00:21.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On that occasion, I found my wife
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.55,0:00:23.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,carrying something like this.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.72,0:00:25.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I saw. "What is that?" I asked.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.96,0:00:29.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My wife replied, "None of your business."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.23,0:00:31.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then, being her husband, I ran behind her
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.32,0:00:32.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and saw she had a nasty rag cloth.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.86,0:00:35.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't even use that cloth to clean my two-wheeler.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.82,0:00:38.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then I understood this -- adapting that unhygienic method
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.63,0:00:40.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to manage her period days.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.93,0:00:42.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then I immediately asked her, why are you [using] that unhygienic method?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.71,0:00:46.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She replied, I also know about [sanitary pads],
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.25,0:00:49.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but myself and my sisters, if they start using that,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.32,0:00:51.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have to cut our family milk budget.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.91,0:00:53.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then I was shocked. What is the connection between
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.23,0:00:54.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,using a sanitary pad and a milk budget?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.69,0:00:57.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's called affordability.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.18,0:01:01.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I tried to impress my new wife by offering her a packet of sanitary pads.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.50,0:01:04.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I went to a local shop, I tried to buy her a sanitary pad packet.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.67,0:01:06.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That fellow looks left and right,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.26,0:01:08.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and spreads a newspaper, rolls it into the newspaper,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.70,0:01:12.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gives it to me like a banned item, something like that.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.48,0:01:16.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know why. I did not ask for a condom.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.28,0:01:20.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then I took that pad. I want to see that. What is inside it?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.40,0:01:24.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The very first time, at the age of 29,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.36,0:01:26.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that day I am touching the sanitary pad, first ever.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.43,0:01:31.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I must know: How many of the guys here have touched a sanitary pad?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.49,0:01:36.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are not going to touch that, because it's not your matter.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.13,0:01:39.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then I thought to myself, white substance, made of cotton --
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.36,0:01:42.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,oh my God, that guy is just using a penny value of raw material --
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.70,0:01:45.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,inside they are selling for pounds, dollars.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.26,0:01:50.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why not make a local sanitary pad for my new wife?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.07,0:01:53.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's how all this started, but after making a sanitary pad,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.08,0:01:54.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where can I check it?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.48,0:01:57.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not like I can just check it in the lab.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.70,0:02:00.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I need a woman volunteer. Where can I get one in India?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.65,0:02:04.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even in Bangalore you won't get [one], in India.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.23,0:02:09.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So only problem: the only available victim is my wife.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.64,0:02:14.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then I made a sanitary pad and handed it to Shanti -- my wife's name is Shanti.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.24,0:02:15.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Close your eyes. Whatever I give,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.54,0:02:17.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it will be not a diamond pendant
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.15,0:02:18.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not a diamond ring, even a chocolate,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.70,0:02:22.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I will give you a surprise with a lot of tinsel paper rolled up with it.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.20,0:02:24.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Close your eyes."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.16,0:02:27.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because I tried to make it intimate.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.23,0:02:30.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because it's an arranged marriage, not a love marriage.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.44,0:02:32.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.96,0:02:36.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So one day she said, openly, I'm not going to support this research.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.54,0:02:39.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then other victims, they got into my sisters.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.66,0:02:43.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But even sisters, wives, they're not ready to support in the research.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.05,0:02:46.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's why I am always jealous with the saints in India.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.09,0:02:49.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are having a lot of women volunteers around them.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.65,0:02:51.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why I am not getting [any]?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.35,0:02:59.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, without them even calling, they'll get a lot of women volunteers.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.44,0:03:02.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then I used, tried to use the medical college girls.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.52,0:03:05.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They also refused. Finally, I decide,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.13,0:03:07.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,use sanitary pad myself.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.98,0:03:10.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now I am having a title like
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.11,0:03:14.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the first man to set foot on the moon.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.29,0:03:17.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Armstrong. Then Tenzing [and] Hillary, in Everest,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.46,0:03:19.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like that Muruganantham is the first man
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.34,0:03:23.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wore a sanitary pad across the globe.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.26,0:03:26.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wore a sanitary pad. I filled animal blood in a football bottle,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.52,0:03:29.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I tied it up here, there is a tube going into my panties,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.21,0:03:31.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while I'm walking, while I'm cycling, I made a press,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.83,0:03:34.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,doses of blood will go there.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.15,0:03:38.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That makes me bow down to any woman in front of me
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.18,0:03:41.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to give full respect. That five days I'll never forget --
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.15,0:03:43.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the messy days, the lousy days, that wetness.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.81,0:03:49.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My God, it's unbelievable.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.46,0:03:54.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But here the problem is, one company is making napkin
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.22,0:03:56.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,out of cotton. It is working well.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.64,0:03:59.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I am also trying to make sanitary pad with the good cotton. It's not working.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.65,0:04:03.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That makes me to want to refuse to continue this research and research and research.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.23,0:04:04.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You need first funds.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.93,0:04:08.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not only financial crises, but because of the sanitary pad research,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.25,0:04:11.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I come through all sorts of problems, including
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.97,0:04:14.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a divorce notice from my wife.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.37,0:04:17.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why is this? I used medical college girls.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.46,0:04:20.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She suspects I am using as a trump card
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.32,0:04:22.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to run behind medical college girls.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.78,0:04:26.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Finally, I came to know it is a special cellulose
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.02,0:04:28.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,derived from a pinewood, but even after that,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.43,0:04:30.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you need a multimillion-dollar plant like this
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.43,0:04:33.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to process that material. Again, a stop-up.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.79,0:04:37.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then I spend another four years to create my own
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.55,0:04:40.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,machine tools, a simple machine tool like this.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.22,0:04:43.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In this machine, any rural woman can apply the same
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.46,0:04:46.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,raw materials that they are processing in the multinational plant,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.30,0:04:49.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,anyone can make a world-class napkin at your dining hall.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.100,0:04:53.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is my invention.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.21,0:04:55.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So after that, what I did,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.94,0:04:59.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,usually if anyone got a patent or an invention,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.40,0:05:02.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,immediately you want to make, convert into this.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.94,0:05:05.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I never did this. I dropped it just like this,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.99,0:05:09.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because you do this, if anyone runs after money,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.58,0:05:13.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their life will not [have] any beauty. It is boredom.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.29,0:05:15.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A lot of people making a lot of money, billion,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.30,0:05:17.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,billions of dollars accumulating.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.46,0:05:19.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why are they coming for, finally, for philanthropy?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.70,0:05:23.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why the need for accumulating money, then doing philanthropy?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.22,0:05:26.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What if one decided to start philanthropy from the day one?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.53,0:05:30.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's why I am giving this machine
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.08,0:05:34.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,only in rural India, for rural women, because in India,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.02,0:05:36.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[you'll be] surprised, only two percent of women
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.49,0:05:39.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are using sanitary pads. The rest, they're using a rag cloth,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.83,0:05:43.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a leaf, a dusty, everything except sanitary pads.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.69,0:05:46.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is the same in the 21st century. That's why I am going
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.08,0:05:49.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to decide to give this machine only for poor, rural class India.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.62,0:05:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So far, 630 installations happened in 23 states
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.00,0:05:55.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in six other countries.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.64,0:06:00.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now I'm on my seventh year sustaining against
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.12,0:06:05.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,multinational, transnational giants -- makes all MBA students a question mark.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.14,0:06:08.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A school dropout from Coimbatore, how he is able to sustaining?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.42,0:06:14.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That makes me a visiting professor and guest lecturer in all areas.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:14.52,0:06:19.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:06:19.68,0:06:22.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Play video one.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.53,0:06:27.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Video) Arunachalam Muruganantham: The thing I saw in my wife's hand, "Why are you using that nasty cloth?"
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.70,0:06:32.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She replied immediately, "I know about napkins, but if I start
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.02,0:06:35.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,using napkins, then we have to cut our family milk budget."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.91,0:06:40.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why not make myself a low-cost napkin?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:40.34,0:06:43.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I decided I'm going to sell this new machine
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.12,0:06:45.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,only for Self Help Groups.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:49.98,0:06:53.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is my idea.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.43,0:06:59.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,AM: And previously, you need a multimillion investment
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.14,0:07:02.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for machine and all. Now, any rural woman can.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:02.64,0:07:04.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are performing puja.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.51,0:07:21.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Video): (Singing)
Dialogue: 0,0:07:21.53,0:07:26.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You just think, competing giants,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.11,0:07:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even from Harvard, Oxford, is difficult.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:28.00,0:07:30.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I make a rural woman to compete with multinationals.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.89,0:07:32.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm sustaining on seventh year.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.46,0:07:34.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Already 600 installations. What is my mission?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.72,0:07:36.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm going to make India
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.58,0:07:40.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[into] a 100-percent-sanitary-napkin-using country in my lifetime.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.58,0:07:42.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In this way I'm going to provide not less than a million
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.57,0:07:44.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rural employment that I'm going to create.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.63,0:07:48.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's why I'm not running after this bloody money.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.18,0:07:49.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm doing something serious.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:49.68,0:07:54.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you chase a girl, the girl won't like you.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.03,0:07:56.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do your job simply, the girl will chase you.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:56.43,0:07:58.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like that, I never chased Mahalakshmi.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:58.78,0:08:03.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mahalakshmi is chasing me, I am keeping in the back pocket.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.65,0:08:08.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not in front pocket. I'm a back pocket man.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.11,0:08:11.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's all. [I] saw your problem in the society
Dialogue: 0,0:08:11.68,0:08:13.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of not using sanitary pad.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:13.71,0:08:16.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am becoming a solution provider. I'm very happy.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.01,0:08:18.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't want to make this as a corporate entity.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.85,0:08:22.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to make this as a local sanitary pad movement
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.86,0:08:25.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,across the globe. That's why I put all the details
Dialogue: 0,0:08:25.71,0:08:29.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on public domain like an open software.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.07,0:08:33.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now 110 countries are accessing it. Okay?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:33.64,0:08:37.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I classify the people into three:
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.64,0:08:44.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,uneducated, little educated, surplus educated.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:44.56,0:08:48.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Little educated, done this. Surplus educated,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.45,0:08:49.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what are you going to do for the society?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:49.85,0:08:53.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you very much. Bye!
Dialogue: 0,0:08:53.62,0:09:04.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)