Arunachalam Muruganantham

[neadods]

I'd heard of him before, but this is a far more complete article (and I'll have to go looking for the documentary and check out the TED talk).

Abstract: A school dropout from a poor family in southern India has revolutionised menstrual health for rural women in developing countries by inventing a simple machine they can use to make cheap sanitary pads

Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26260978

If you don't want to read it all, read the last two paragraphs. Read the last two paragraphs!

I've been slapped in the face with my own first-world privilege and yet I can't stop grinning about Arunachalam Muruganantham.

Comments

[tchwrtr.livejournal.com]

Awesome. Thank you for sharing.

[redpanda13.livejournal.com]

What a terrific story. I'm impressed that he kept going even after losing so much because of his obsession, however meritorious. If there's any truth to the Hindu belief in karma, he's earned more than a few steps up the ladder.

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

I love his attitude about money. "If you get rich, you have an apartment with an extra bedroom - and then you die." The belief that there is no such thing as enough money is one of the things that's destroying America.

[redpanda13.livejournal.com]

I sometimes think the American motto should be, "Some is good, more is better, way too much is just about right."

Well.... if you're talking about books....

[wendymr.livejournal.com]

An inspiring and humbling story - thank you for sharing!

[amethyst-hunter.livejournal.com]

Great story. This is an awesome guy.