IT PAYS TO BE MAD They called him mad. His wife left him. His mother too. His village banished him from the village. He stuck on to his faddist idea to produce a low cost affordable sanitary napkin for the poor women of India who did not know what to do with menstrual blood. He finally succeeded and then empowered women cooperatives to produce them on their own and then to educate women folk to use them. The result: drastic reduction of infections in women that led to cervical or uterine cancer or deaths during delivery. He was a man with a mission. When he became famous, his wife, mother and villagers rejoined him and hailed him. He finds mention in the Time Magazines 100 most influential people in the world, along with President Obama, Pope Benedict and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Read the story of Arunachalam Muruganandam of Coimbatore, India, a school drop-out. bbc/news/magazine-26260978
Posted on: Sun, 15 Jun 2014 17:04:52 +0000