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- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you chase a girl, the girl won't like you. Do your job simply, the girl will chase you.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am becoming a solution provider. I'm very happy. I don't want to make this as a corporate entity. I want to make this as a local sanitary pad movement across the globe.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were offers from a few Bollywood filmmakers, but I was sceptical as to whether those films will do justice to my vision or even my life. I was also apprehensive because what if I sign an agreement and give the rights to some filmmaker, and he shelves the project?
- India
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been working in north Indian villages, so I know the truth. Compared to the south Indian states, north India is less developed, and there's little awareness on menstrual hygiene.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suffered a lot when I tried to make sanitary napkins and promote the idea. My family - including my mother and wife - deserted me. Villagers even tied me to a tree and beat me. But after seeing me successful now, they come and say that they all knew that I would become famous one day.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My wife gone, my mum gone, ostracised by my village. I was left all alone in life.
- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Imagine: I got patent rights to the only machine in the world to make low-cost sanitary napkins - a hot-cake product. Anyone with an MBA would immediately accumulate the maximum money. But I did not want to. Why? Because from childhood, I know no human being died because of poverty - everything happens because of ignorance.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Luckily, I'm not educated. If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop.
- India
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- Nov 07, 2020
My vision is to make India into a 100% sanitary-pad-using country. Menstruation is no more a taboo.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea came from my wife, since in our village, women cannot afford to buy sanitary pads. When I asked my wife, she told me we would have to cut down half of our milk budget to buy sanitary pads. Moreover, while raw materials for sanitary pads cost 10 paise, the end product was sold for 40 times that price. So, I decided to create it on my own.
- Survive
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are two kinds of students: those who study and work to survive, while others who want to be achievers.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have any plans to make money for myself. All I wish to do is empower rural women in our country.
- Learned
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- Nov 07, 2020
To help my mother, I started working as a workshop helper. There I learned welding and other tools.
- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got married at 24. It was an arranged marriage.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being the son of a handloom weaver, I have knowledge of cotton and some other material.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
To break the age-old taboos and to see girls and women use pads was a difficult task.
- Makes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm ecstatic to be known as pad man, as it makes a difference to women's lives.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I work in the remotest villages, it reminds me of who I am... India is not built on 14 metros and 100 cities. It's made up of 600,000 villages.
- Moon
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can send women to the Moon or Mars later. First, provide sanitary pads to them.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My plea is that don't wait for a girl to become a woman to empower them. Empower a girl's life by giving sanitary pads to them. With pads, we give them wings.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My life is a brave one. I didn't put any restrictions.
- Automated
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know that if I had got educated, I might have ended up as a call-center employee.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why buy sanitary napkins from multinationals when we can make them at home and generate employment?
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I converted a problem into an opportunity.
- Failed
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- Nov 07, 2020
My nature is such that even if I failed 9,999 times, I'll attempt for the 10,000th time again.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never thought someone would make a film on my story.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
Quality napkins are made in villages at a cost of just Rs 2 per piece with my simple and cost-effective machines.
- Even
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- Nov 07, 2020
The taboo regarding menstruation exists across the world, even among the educated.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Padman' was about my early life and struggles, including my wife calling me a psycho and leaving me.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every father, brother, and husband should know about menstruation. It is not just about women; it is about men, too.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
Social entrepreneurship is like a butterfly, sucking honey from a flower, but the flower won't die. They're helping the flower to make pollination.
- Farmers
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- Nov 07, 2020
India and other developing nations need non-farm sector activity. So what we are doing, we are giving small microbusiness to the rural women, especially the farmers' wives.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The strong creation created by God in the world is not the lion, not the elephant, not the tiger - the girl.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't take the money route because I saw my parents struggle for survival.
- Nov 07, 2020
The world has a shortage of solution providers. Everybody want to be in the 'Forbes' list.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took me eight years of trial and error to design the machines that would make low-cost pads: just Rs 2 each, compared to those made by the MNCs that are priced anywhere above Rs 6 to Rs 100.
- Ripple
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- Nov 07, 2020