//电影频道 003//
写在前面：周六晚，去看了《印度合伙人》。电影中男主拉克希米的光环让我震撼。开头，他和妻子葛雅特莉的虐狗片段，是目前为止，我能想象的最纯美的爱情。结尾的时候，我又无比希望拉克希米和他的合伙人帕里瓦利亚在一起。葛雅特莉打开了拉克希米梦想的大门，而帕里是那个和他一起修建房子的人。在这部轻喜剧里，最大的泪点在我看来是帕里在与拉克希米告别后与父亲吐露的那一番话：“如果我把他留下，他一生都不会快乐。我不想磨灭他的那份自信，那份自信可以帮助他走向另一个人生的巅峰。”一个是曾与自己朝夕与共、细心照顾自己的妻子，一个是帮助自己实现梦想的红颜知己，这两个女性对拉克希米都是极其重要的。他是幸运的，可以说，没有葛雅特莉的关怀，没有帕里的包容，就没有最后在联合国发表演讲的他。这部电影的原型是一个叫Arunachalam Muruganantham的男子，看了他的TED演讲，仿佛重过了一边电影，也让我从中看到了一些更加真实的感动。
人物介绍
When he realized his wife had to choose between buying family meals and buying her monthly "supplies," Arunachalam Muruganantham vowed to help her solve the problem of the sanitary pad. His research got very very personal -- and led him to a powerful business model.
Arunachalam Muruganantham created a system of simple machines to make modern sanitary napkins — giving millions of women in his home country and around the world access to hygiene.
他·说
So I tried to do a small good thing for my wife. It makes me to stand here, the fame, the money I got out of it. So what I did, I'd gone back to my early marriage days. What you did in the early marriage days, you tried to impress your wife. I did the same. On that occasion, I found my wife carrying something like this. I saw. "What is that?" I asked. My wife replied, "None of your business." Then, being her husband, I ran behind her and saw she had a nasty rag cloth. I don't even use that cloth to clean my two-wheeler. Then I understood this -- adapting that unhygienic method to manage her period days.
他的初衷来自于对妻子的关爱。作为一个新婚丈夫，即便没那么有钱，他也尽可能给妻子提供更好的生活。他知道不卫生的做法会为女性带去疾病的困扰。作为一个丈夫，他是爱自己妻子的，他不愿意失去妻子。电影中，医院的医生、教授们也深知这种行为对女性的影响。然而，他们并没有想到去改变这种状况。只有他想到了，这是他最伟大的地方。
Then I immediately asked her, why are you [using] that unhygienic method? She replied, I also know about [sanitary pads], but myself and my sisters, if they start using that, we have to cut our family milk budget. Then I was shocked. What is the connection between using a sanitary pad and a milk budget? And it's called affordability. I tried to impress my new wife by offering her a packet of sanitary pads. I went to a local shop, I tried to buy her a sanitary pad packet. That fellow looks left and right, and spreads a newspaper, rolls it into the newspaper, gives it to me like a banned item, something like that. I don't know why. I did not ask for a condom. Then I took that pad. I want to see that. What is inside it?
作为男人，不太会像精于料理家务，管理开支的女人一样，在意每一分支出。女性考虑到的是整个家庭的支出，她们想到的不只是当下，还有未来。而男人会觉得，钱是用来满足瞬时的需要的。看到这里，我很庆幸自己没有经历过在姨妈巾和牛奶中的艰难抉择。这个看似很小的问题的背后可能牵扯到了很多我不明白的社会问题。
The very first time, at the age of 29, that day I am touching the sanitary pad, first ever. I must know: How many of the guys here have touched a sanitary pad? They are not going to touch that, because it's not your matter. Then I thought to myself, white substance, made of cotton -- oh my God, that guy is just using a penny value of raw material -- inside they are selling for pounds, dollars. Why not make a local sanitary pad for my new wife? That's how all this started, but after making a sanitary pad, where can I check it? It's not like I can just check it in the lab. I need a woman volunteer. Where can I get one in India? Even in Bangalore you won't get [one], in India. So only problem: the only available victim is my wife.
But here the problem is, one company is making napkin out of cotton. It is working well. But I am also trying to make sanitary pad with the good cotton. It's not working. That makes me to want to refuse to continue this research and research and research. You need first funds. Not only financial crises, but because of the sanitary pad research, I come through all sorts of problems, including a divorce notice from my wife. Why is this? I used medical college girls. She suspects I am using as a trump card to run behind medical college girls. Finally, I came to know it is a special cellulose derived from a pinewood, but even after that, you need a multimillion-dollar plant like this to process that material. Again, a stop-up. Then I spend another four years to create my own machine tools, a simple machine tool like this. In this machine, any rural woman can apply the same raw materials that they are processing in the multinational plant, anyone can make a world-class napkin at your dining hall. That is my invention.
So after that, what I did, usually if anyone got a patent or an invention, immediately you want to make, convert into this. I never did this. I dropped it just like this, because you do this, if anyone runs after money, their life will not [have] any beauty. It is boredom. A lot of people making a lot of money, billion, billions of dollars accumulating. Why are they coming for, finally, for philanthropy? Why the need for accumulating money, then doing philanthropy? What if one decided to start philanthropy from the day one? That's why I am giving this machine only in rural India, for rural women, because in India, [you'll be] surprised, only two percent of women are using sanitary pads. The rest, they're using a rag cloth, a leaf, husk, [saw] dust, everything except sanitary pads. It is the same in the 21st century. That's why I am going to decide to give this machine only for poor women across India. So far, 630 installations happened in 23 states in six other countries.
Now I'm on my seventh year sustaining against multinational, transnational giants -- makes all MBA students a question mark. A school dropout from Coimbatore, how he is able to sustaining? That makes me a visiting professor and guest lecturer in all IIMs.
在开始他的试验后，他遭到的无数的谩骂、误解、不满。但即便是来自亲人的不解也没有使它放弃。电影里，有一个让我印象很深的片段——在他得知自己成功研发出和市面上相差无几的护垫时，他立即拨打了妻子的电话，并激动地把这个消息告诉了她。然而，电话那头，却是妻子心碎的声音，“这么长时间，他打来第一个电话，不是问我好不好，而是说他的护垫？”作为一个女人，比起丈夫事业上的成功，她可能更渴望的是来自丈夫的关爱。而作为男人，他觉得自己必须干成一番成就，才足以说明他爱妻子。
他的伟大还在于他的无私。他是商人，却不汲汲于利。他开创了更长久的商业模式，让妇女自己动手生产护垫，这不仅让她们得以避免疾病的困扰，也促使她们有独立自主的生活，有稳定的经济来源。那些十分成功的人，都是有大爱的人。只着眼于小利的人是很难干成一番大事业的，所谓行善积德，功德无量大概就是这个道理。
And previously, you need a multimillion investment for machine and all. Now, any rural woman can. They are performing puja. You just think, competing giants, even from Harvard, Oxford, is difficult. I make a rural woman to compete with multinationals. I'm sustaining on seventh year. Already 600 installations. What is my mission? I'm going to make India [into] a 100-percent-sanitary-napkin-using country in my lifetime. In this way I'm going to provide not less than a million rural employment that I'm going to create. That's why I'm not running after this bloody money. I'm doing something serious. If you chase a girl, the girl won't like you. Do your job simply, the girl will chase you. Like that, I never chased Mahalakshmi. Mahalakshmi is chasing me, I am keeping in the back pocket. Not in front pocket. I'm a back pocket man. That's all. A school dropout saw your problem in the society of not using sanitary pad. I am becoming a solution provider. I'm very happy. I don't want to make this as a corporate entity. I want to make this as a local sanitary pad movement across the globe. That's why I put all the details on public domain like an open software. Now 110 countries are accessing it. Okay? So I classify the people into three: uneducated, little educated, surplus educated. Little educated, done this. Surplus educated, what are you going to do for the society?
他不仅让自己的妻子、妹妹用上了干净的护垫，他还造福了无数印度女性。电影中说，真正有用的发明创造一定是能改变社会的东西。我们需要飞机、潜艇这些高科技发明，它们提高了我们民族自豪感；我们也需要青蒿素、疫苗这些医药发明，它们保证了我们有健康的身体，免除疾病的困扰。与这些看起来更有价值的发明比较起来，护垫这些东西虽然不需要太多的技术、智慧，但是它们也不可或缺。这些最基础的东西，是社会幸福感的基础。从某些层面上看，这些小的发明创造，为人们带来了巨大的福利。
演讲的最后，他说，只接受过一点教育的我，做到了这些。那些接受过优质教育的人们，你们将为这个社会做些什么？
这句话着实刺激到了我······他耗费精力设计出来的设备，在一些专业人士的眼里可能只是小菜一碟。但是，与他相比，那些高科技人才缺少的不是知识，而是小人物的爱、奉献和不功利的心。
附：Arunachalam Muruganantham演讲链接
Arunachalam Muruganantham | Speaker | TED
Arunachalam Muruganantham: How I started a sanitary napkin revolution! | TED Talk\
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