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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.
Arunachalam Muruganantham
Work
Country
Awareness
Restricted
Only
Hygiene
Fact
Had
Part
Mission
Been
Did
Getting
In Fact
Want
Movie
Wanted
Regional
Hollywood
Create
Based
Filmmakers
'Padman' was about my early life and struggles, including my wife calling me a psycho and leaving me.
Arunachalam Muruganantham
Life
Me
Wife
About
Struggles
Calling
Leaving
Psycho
Including
Early
Early Life
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.
Arunachalam Muruganantham
Happy
Local
Corporate
Solution
Entity
Make
Globe
Becoming
Am
Provider
Very
Movement
Want
Pad
Across
Sanitary
Luckily, I'm not educated. If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop.
Arunachalam Muruganantham
You
Man
Learning
Will
Never
Never Stop
Like
Educated
Stop
Act
Your
Illiterate
Luckily
My vision is to make India into a 100% sanitary-pad-using country. Menstruation is no more a taboo.
Arunachalam Muruganantham
Vision
Country
India
Taboo
More
Make
I'm ecstatic to be known as pad man, as it makes a difference to women's lives.
Arunachalam Muruganantham
Man
Women
Ecstatic
Known
Makes
Difference
Pad
Lives
My nature is such that even if I failed 9,999 times, I'll attempt for the 10,000th time again.
Arunachalam Muruganantham
Time
Nature
Attempt
Failed
Times
Again
Even
I never thought someone would make a film on my story.
Arunachalam Muruganantham
Thought
Would
Someone
Never
Make
Story
Film
The world has a shortage of solution providers. Everybody want to be in the 'Forbes' list.
Arunachalam Muruganantham
World
Everybody
Solution
Forbes
Providers
List
Want
Shortage
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?
Arunachalam Muruganantham
Life
Justice
Rights
Vision
Will
My Life
Few
Films
Apprehensive
Project
Those
Sign
Some
Give
Sceptical
He
Also
Because
Shelves
Were
Offers
What If
Whether
Even
Agreement
Bollywood
Filmmaker
Filmmakers
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.
Arunachalam Muruganantham
Happiness
You
Money
Rich
Extra
Bedroom
Lot
Accumulate
Get
Die
Apartment
Then
Most of the students whom I have lectured were inquisitive to learn and contribute towards my vision. So, the youth who want to achieve in life can do a lot for society.
Arunachalam Muruganantham
Life
Youth
Vision
Achieve
Society
Inquisitive
Students
Towards
Most
Learn
Were
Lot
Contribute
Want
Who
Whom
I got married at 24. It was an arranged marriage.
Arunachalam Muruganantham
Marriage
Married
Arranged
Got
Being the son of a handloom weaver, I have knowledge of cotton and some other material.
Arunachalam Muruganantham
Knowledge
Son
Other
Some
Cotton
Material
Being
I may fail today, but if I have another idea tomorrow, maybe it will work.
Arunachalam Muruganantham
Work
Today
Tomorrow
Will
Fail
Idea
Another
May
Maybe
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.
Arunachalam Muruganantham
Simple
Will
Argument
Machine
Out
Simpler
Come
Make
Did
Anyone
Automated
Wants
Pads
Who
Compete
I know that if I had got educated, I might have ended up as a call-center employee.
Arunachalam Muruganantham
Had
Employee
Know
Got
Educated
Up
Ended
Might
I didn't take the money route because I saw my parents struggle for survival.
Arunachalam Muruganantham
Struggle
Survival
Money
Parents
Saw
Take
Because
Route
When I tell a foreign audience that 90 per cent of Indian women have no access to sanitary napkin, there is a visible disbelief. But there is hardly a ripple when I say the same thing to an Indian crowd.
Arunachalam Muruganantham
Ripple
Women
Same Thing
Say
Visible
Tell
Indian
Per
Crowd
Disbelief
Napkin
Access
Audience
Foreign
Same
Cent
Sanitary
Thing
Hardly
When I speak a serious subject in an informal and humorous way, it has bigger impact. So much so, when BBC made a small documentary, they first thought of having a voiceover for me. The producer liked my English so much, he said they were retaining my original voice.
Arunachalam Muruganantham
Me
Speak
Thought
Made
First
Humorous
Way
Impact
Having
Small
Voice
Voiceover
Retaining
He
Liked
Documentary
Said
Were
Subject
Bigger
Informal
Much
Producer
English
Original
Serious
Things have their own pace, and if we work with that pace and anticipate the issues correctly, we can have good results.
Arundhati Bhattacharya
Work
Good
Own
Correctly
Results
Issues
Anticipate
Pace
Things
In any merger, the biggest challenge is always integration of human resources because the people who are coming in have a lot of apprehension.
Arundhati Bhattacharya
People
Challenge
Apprehension
Resources
Merger
Because
Always
Coming
Integration
Lot
Any
Human
Biggest
Biggest Challenge
Who
Human Resources
Frankly, I have a lot of interests, and I am not all that wedded only to banking.
Arundhati Bhattacharya
Frankly
Only
Am
Lot
Banking
Interests
Theoretically, every probationary officer has a chance to become chairman.
Arundhati Bhattacharya
Become
Every
Officer
Theoretically
Chairman
Chance
A maturing process, and growth, is always painful. You ask any teenager, they will tell you, and it's just like that for the country. We need to grow; we need to evolve.
Arundhati Bhattacharya
You
Will
Country
Teenager
Tell
Evolve
Like
Always
Maturing
Any
Just
Process
Ask
Painful
Grow
Growth
Need
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi turned the narrative around on demonetisation very quickly by promoting the move as one way of ending systemic corruption in the country.
Arundhati Bhattacharya
Corruption
Ending
Country
Way
Systemic
Minister
Indian
Promoting
One-Way
Prime
Prime Minister
Around
Narrative
Very
Quickly
Move
Turned
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