No descendant of Leo Tolstoy, he jokes, has made a serious attempt to write prose. Daniil Tolstoy, the Russian novelist’s great-grandson, is an academic and organic farmer who once led a project to revive his forebear’s fables and children’s stories. Now, with Gopalkrishna Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, he has revisited the century-old correspondence between their ancestors in ‘Truth and Love: The Gandhi-Tolstoy Letters’. In a conversation with Sneha Bhura, Daniil reflects on the friendship between the two thinkers
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