A closer look
When millions of people are grinding their sweaty bodies into your train seats daily, standard upholstery just isn't going to cut it. Enter Yelavarthy Nayudamma, a chemical engineer whose deep obsession with leather tanning casually saved the Indian Railways. He applied hardcore leather research to develop ultra-durable seating materials that could withstand the apocalyptic wear-and-tear of India's booming rail transit. Your comfortable commute was quite literally engineered in a tannery.
