Leo Tolstoy to Dada Abdulla, the international influences on the Mahatma | Eye News, The Indian Express

Leo Tolstoy to Dada Abdulla, the international influences on the Mahatma | Eye News, The Indian Express

Written by Seema Chisti |Updated: September 29, 2019 9:15:00 am

Leo Tolstoy to Dada Abdulla, the international influences on the Mahatma

Mahatma Gandhi 150th Birth Anniversary: Gandhi was a global citizen much before his time.

Gandhi’s Tolstoy Farm in South Africa.

The accolades that Mahatma Gandhi received in death have few parallels in modern history. King George VI in London said that mankind had suffered an irreparable loss. Albert Deutsch, a columnist from New York, said there was still hope for a world that “had reacted as reverently as it did to the death of Gandhi.”