Quotes

• 1."You can send women to the Moon or Mars later. First, provide sanitary pads to them."




• 2."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."




• 3."If you chase a girl, the girl won't like you. Do your job simply, the girl will chase you."




• 4."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."




• 5."My vision is to make India into a 100% sanitary-pad-using country. Menstruation is no more a taboo."




• 6."I don't have any plans to make money for myself. All I wish to do is empower rural women in our country."




• 7."What kept me going was my desire to provide a hygiene product for my wife."




• 8."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."




• 9."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?'"




• 10."I know that if I had got educated, I might have ended up as a call-center employee."




• 11."My nature is such that even if I failed 9,999 times, I'll attempt for the 10,000th time again."




• 12."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."




• 13."The strong creation created by God in the world is not the lion, not the elephant, not the tiger - the girl."




• 14."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."




• 15."I didn't take the money route because I saw my parents struggle for survival."