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.

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• Arunachalam Muruganantham:

  There were offers from a few Bollywood filmmakers, but I was sceptical as to whether those films wi

• Arunachalam Muruganantham:

  I have been working in north Indian villages, so I know the truth. Compared to the south Indian sta

• Arunachalam Muruganantham:

  I suffered a lot when I tried to make sanitary napkins and promote the idea. My family - including

• Arunachalam Muruganantham:

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

• Arunachalam Muruganantham:

  Imagine: I got patent rights to the only machine in the world to make low-cost sanitary napkins - a

• Arunachalam Muruganantham:

  I have accumulated no money but I accumulate a lot of happiness. If you get rich, you have an apart

• Arunachalam Muruganantham:

  Luckily, I'm not educated. If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop.

• Arunachalam Muruganantham:

  My wife was gone, all other girls failed to cooperate, so I decided to wear a pouch of animal blood

• Arunachalam Muruganantham:

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

• Arunachalam Muruganantham:

  The idea came from my wife, since in our village, women cannot afford to buy sanitary pads. When I