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.
To break the age-old taboos and to see girls and women use pads was a difficult task.
Even if I can take sanitary napkins to 10% of the poor women in India, it will be big achievement.
Why buy sanitary napkins from multinationals when we can make them at home and generate employment?
I am the son of a hand-loom weaver. I have a connection with yarn. I thought, 'Why not try to make an affordable sanitary pad for my wife?'
You can send women to the Moon or Mars later. First, provide sanitary pads to them.
