"NEW DELHI, India — Not long ago, women in the small south Indian town of Coimbatore were convinced that 47-year-old A. Muruganantham was some kind of pervert.
After a failed attempt with his wife and sisters and a cockeyed do-it-yourself effort with a football bladder full of goat's blood, he'd finally hit upon a surefire way to test the low-cost sanitary napkin he was developing for India's poor. He was passing out free pads to college girls and collecting their used napkins for study. And he had a storeroom full of them. When his mother saw it, she burst into tears and packed her things to move in with his sister."
MinnPost - Meet A. Muruganantham, India's tampon king
I was researching for niches when I came across this article.
TL;DR
Guy wants to help wife
Split tests optimal tampon
Wife, mother leaves hime because they think he's crazy
He invents a cheap way to make sanitary pads helping millions of women in India
After a failed attempt with his wife and sisters and a cockeyed do-it-yourself effort with a football bladder full of goat's blood, he'd finally hit upon a surefire way to test the low-cost sanitary napkin he was developing for India's poor. He was passing out free pads to college girls and collecting their used napkins for study. And he had a storeroom full of them. When his mother saw it, she burst into tears and packed her things to move in with his sister."
MinnPost - Meet A. Muruganantham, India's tampon king
I was researching for niches when I came across this article.
TL;DR
Guy wants to help wife
Split tests optimal tampon
Wife, mother leaves hime because they think he's crazy
He invents a cheap way to make sanitary pads helping millions of women in India
