Early Struggles of 6 Indian Entrepreneurs

By siliconindia | Tuesday, 15 March 2016, 10:30 Hrs

The Social Entrepreneur

As a school dropout hailing from a poor background, he noticed his wife using unhygienic rags as sanitary napkin because the family could not afford it. When he bought the first, rather pricey sanitary napkin for his wife, he realized that it was mere cotton. He took it to himself to research and after more than four years builds a low cost version of it. Instead of turning it to a market entity, he now heads the initiative to distribute them to rural India. “I don’t want to make this as a corporate entity, but as a local sanitary pad movement.” he said at Tedx talk. He also claims that more than 110 countries are building upon his idea which he has contributed to the public like open source software without patenting it.