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With Akshay Kumar's movie Padman coming up next week, we hear from the real Padman of India, who shook up the sanitary napkin industry with his work more than a decade ago. At that time, Arunachalam was a young, married man in a village near Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, and he created a low-cost sanitary napkin at home to impress his wife. That began a dramatic journey that subject him to his entire community's ridicule, nearly broke his marriage, helped bring focus to a taboo issue, and finally won him a Padma Shri Award, international recognition, and now even an Akshay Kumar film.