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

[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....