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{{Short description|Indian born British journalist}}
{{Short description|British-Indian journalist (1935–2026)}}
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| name              = Sir Mark Tully
| honorific_prefix = [[Sir]]
| honorific_suffix  = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KBE}}
| honorific_suffix = [[Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire|KBE]]
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| name            = Mark Tully
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| birth_place     = [[Tollygunge]], Kolkata (formerly named [[Calcutta]]), [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]
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[[File:Mark Tully.jpg|thumb|Tully at a function in Delhi in 2007]]


'''Sir William Mark Tully''', [[Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire|KBE]] (born 24 October 1935)<ref>{{cite news |title=Birthdays |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |pages=47 |publisher=Guardian News & Media |date=29 October 2014 }}</ref><ref name="BBC">{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1735083.stm |title=Mark Tully: The voice of India |date=31 December 2001 |publisher=BBC |access-date=25 November 2009 |location=London}}</ref> is the former Bureau Chief of [[BBC]], [[New Delhi]], a position he held for 20 years.<ref name="th">{{cite news |url=http://www.hindu.com/2000/02/20/stories/1320001c.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629052632/http://www.hindu.com/2000/02/20/stories/1320001c.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=29 June 2011 |title=Media reportage: Interview with Mark Tully |date=20 February 2000 |newspaper=[[The Hindu]] |access-date=25 November 2009}}</ref> He worked with the BBC for a total of 30 years before resigning in July 1994.<ref name="ti">{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/tully-quits-bbc-1412865.html |title=Tully quits BBC |last=Victor |first=Peter |date=10 July 1994 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=25 November 2009 |location=London}}</ref> The recipient of several awards, Tully has authored nine books. He is a member of the [[Oriental Club]].
'''Sir William Mark Tully''' (24 October 1935 – 25 January 2026) was a British journalist and the bureau chief of the [[BBC]] in [[New Delhi]], a position he held for 20 years.<ref name="th">{{cite news |url=http://www.hindu.com/2000/02/20/stories/1320001c.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629052632/http://www.hindu.com/2000/02/20/stories/1320001c.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=29 June 2011 |title=Media reportage: Interview with Mark Tully |date=20 February 2000 |newspaper=[[The Hindu]] |access-date=25 November 2009}}</ref> He worked with the BBC for 30 years before resigning in July 1994.<ref name="ti">{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/tully-quits-bbc-1412865.html |title=Tully quits BBC |last=Victor |first=Peter |date=10 July 1994 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=25 November 2009 |location=London}}</ref> He also wrote and published several books.


==Personal life==
==Early life and education==
Tully was born in [[Tollygunge]] in India <ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-23678823 |title=Why Mark Tully needs a Calcutta birth certificate at 78 |date=20 August 2013 |access-date=20 August 2013 |work=BBC News}}</ref> His father was a British businessman who was a partner in one of the leading managing agencies of the [[British Raj]]. He spent the first decade of his childhood in India, although without being allowed to socialise with Indian people; at the age of four, he was sent to a "British boarding school" in [[Darjeeling]],<ref name="th2" /><ref name="unt">{{cite web |url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-4313:1 |title=British and Indian influences in the identities and literature of Mark Tully and Ruskin Bond |last=Lakhani |first=Brenda |year=2003 |publisher=University of North Texas |access-date=25 November 2009}}</ref> before going to England for further schooling from the age of nine. There he was educated at [[Twyford School]] (Hampshire), [[Marlborough College]] and at [[Trinity Hall, Cambridge]], where he studied [[Theology]].<ref name="th2">{{cite news |url=http://www.hindu.com/mp/2007/06/18/stories/2007061850540100.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110626051043/http://www.hindu.com/mp/2007/06/18/stories/2007061850540100.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=26 June 2011 |title=Meeting Mark |date=18 June 2007 |newspaper=[[The Hindu]] |access-date=25 November 2009}}</ref>
Tully was born in [[Tollygunge]], Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, [[British India]], on 24 October 1935.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-23678823 |title=Why Mark Tully needs a Calcutta birth certificate at 78 |date=20 August 2013 |access-date=20 August 2013 |work=BBC News}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Birthdays |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |pages=47 |publisher=Guardian News & Media |date=29 October 2014 }}</ref><ref name="BBC">{{cite news |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1735083.stm |title=Mark Tully: The voice of India |date=31 December 2001 |publisher=BBC |access-date=25 November 2009 |location=London}}</ref> His father was a British businessman who was a partner in one of the leading managing agencies of the [[British Raj]]. His mother had been born in Bengal. Tully spent the first decade of his childhood in India, although without being allowed to socialise with Indian people. His British nanny once scolded him for learning to count in Hindi from his driver, saying "that's the servant's language, not yours".<ref name=bbc /> At the age of four, he was sent to a "British boarding school" in [[Darjeeling]],<ref name="th2" /><ref name="unt">{{cite web |url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-4313:1 |title=British and Indian influences in the identities and literature of Mark Tully and Ruskin Bond |last=Lakhani |first=Brenda |year=2003 |publisher=University of North Texas |access-date=25 November 2009}}</ref> before going to England for further schooling from the age of nine. There he was educated at [[Twyford School]] (Hampshire), [[Marlborough College]] and at [[Trinity Hall, Cambridge]], where he studied [[Theology]].<ref name="th2">{{cite news |url=http://www.hindu.com/mp/2007/06/18/stories/2007061850540100.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110626051043/http://www.hindu.com/mp/2007/06/18/stories/2007061850540100.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=26 June 2011 |title=Meeting Mark |date=18 June 2007 |newspaper=[[The Hindu]] |access-date=25 November 2009}}</ref>


After Cambridge, Tully intended becoming a priest in the [[Church of England]] but abandoned the vocation after just two terms at [[Lincoln Theological College]], admitting later that he had doubts about "trusting [his] sexuality to behave as a Christian priest".<ref name="BBC" /> His personal life has been complex. In 2001 he married Margaret, with whom he has four children, and when in London he lives with his wife. When in India, however, he lives with his girlfriend Gillian Wright.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1735083.stm |title=Mark Tully: The Voice of India|date=31 December 2001 |publisher=BBC |access-date=28 April 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/Mighty-words-indeed/article14990094.ece |title=Mighty Words Indeed |date=1 November 2016 |newspaper=The Hindu |access-date=28 April 2017}}</ref>
After Cambridge, Tully intended to become a priest in the [[Church of England]] but abandoned this after two terms at [[Lincoln Theological College]], admitting later that he had doubts about "trusting [his] sexuality to behave as a Christian priest".<ref name="BBC" />


[[File:Mark Tully.jpg|thumb|Mark Tully at a function in Delhi in Feb 2007]]
==Journalistic career==
==Journalistic career==
Tully joined the [[BBC]] in 1964 and moved back to India in 1965 to work as the corporation's India Correspondent.<ref name="BBC" /><ref name="uy" /><ref name="LAT">{{cite news |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/61846854.html?dids=61846854:61846854&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Dec+22%2C+1992&author=BOB+DROGIN&pub=Los+Angeles+Times+%28pre-1997+Fulltext%29&desc=Profile+The+BBC%27s+Battered+Sahib+Mark+Tully+has+been+expelled+by+India%2C+chased+by+mobs+and+picketed.+He+loves+his+job. |title=Profile The BBC's Battered Sahib Mark Tully has been expelled by India, chased by mobs and picketed. He loves his job. |last=Drogin |first=Bob |date=22 December 1992 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=25 November 2009}}</ref> He covered all the major incidents in South Asia during his tenure, ranging from [[Indo-Pakistan conflict]]s, [[Bhopal gas tragedy]], [[Operation Blue Star]] (and the subsequent assassination of [[Indira Gandhi]], [[anti-Sikh riots]]), [[Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi]] to the [[Ayodhya debate#Demolition of Babri Masjid|Demolition of Babri Masjid]].<ref name="CNN" /><ref name="BBC-bluestar">{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/sikhism/history/operationbluestar.shtml |title=After Blue Star |publisher=BBC |access-date=11 January 2010}}</ref><ref name="BBC-babri">{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2528025.stm |title=Tearing down the Babri Masjid |publisher=BBC |access-date=11 January 2010 |date=5 December 2002 |location=London |first=Mark |last=Tully}}</ref> He was barred from entering India during Emergency in 1975–77 when Prime Minister Mrs Gandhi had imposed censorship curbs on the media.
Tully joined the [[BBC]] in 1964 and moved back to India in 1965 to work as the corporation's India correspondent.<ref name="BBC" /><ref name="uy" /><ref name="LAT">{{cite news |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/61846854.html?dids=61846854:61846854&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Dec+22%2C+1992&author=BOB+DROGIN&pub=Los+Angeles+Times+%28pre-1997+Fulltext%29&desc=Profile+The+BBC%27s+Battered+Sahib+Mark+Tully+has+been+expelled+by+India%2C+chased+by+mobs+and+picketed.+He+loves+his+job. |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130104113334/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/61846854.html?dids=61846854:61846854&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Dec+22,+1992&author=BOB+DROGIN&pub=Los+Angeles+Times+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=Profile+The+BBC's+Battered+Sahib+Mark+Tully+has+been+expelled+by+India,+chased+by+mobs+and+picketed.+He+loves+his+job. |url-status=dead |archive-date=4 January 2013 |title=Profile The BBC's Battered Sahib Mark Tully has been expelled by India, chased by mobs and picketed. He loves his job. |last=Drogin |first=Bob |date=22 December 1992 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=25 November 2009}}</ref> He covered all the major incidents in South Asia during his tenure, ranging from [[Indo-Pakistan conflict]]s, [[Bhopal gas tragedy]], [[Operation Blue Star]] (and the subsequent [[assassination of Indira Gandhi]], [[anti-Sikh riots]]), the [[assassination of Rajiv Gandhi]] to the [[Ayodhya debate#Demolition of Babri Masjid|demolition of Babri Masjid]].<ref name="CNN" /><ref name="BBC-bluestar">{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/sikhism/history/operationbluestar.shtml |title=After Blue Star |publisher=BBC |access-date=11 January 2010}}</ref><ref name="BBC-babri">{{cite news |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2528025.stm |title=Tearing down the Babri Masjid |publisher=BBC |access-date=11 January 2010 |date=5 December 2002 |location=London |first=Mark |last=Tully}}</ref> He was expelled from India shortly after [[Indira Gandhi]] declared a [[The Emergency (India)|state of emergency]] and began ruling by decree in 1975; he returned a year and a half later shortly before the restoration of normality in the country.<ref name=bbc />


Tully resigned from the BBC in July 1994, after an argument with [[John Birt]], the then Director General. He accused Birt of "running the corporation by fear" and "turning the BBC into a secretive monolith with poor ratings and a demoralised staff".<ref name="ti" />
In 1992, when covering the [[demolition of the Babri Masjid]] by [[Hindutva]] activists, some of the perpetrators confronted him, chanting "Death to Mark Tully", reflecting their distrust of the BBC. Tully was locked in a room until a local official and a Hindu priest helped him leave several hours later; he later said that the demolition was India's "greatest setback" to secularism as an independent nation.<ref name=bbc /> He resigned from the BBC in July 1994 after an argument with [[John Birt]], the then director general. He accused Birt of "running the corporation by fear" and "turning the BBC into a secretive monolith with poor ratings and a demoralised staff".<ref name="ti" />
In 1994 he presented an episode of BBCs Great Railway Journeys "Karachi to The Khyber Pass" travelling by train across Pakistan.
Since 1994 he has been working as a freelance journalist and broadcaster based in New Delhi.<ref name="uy">{{cite web|url=http://www.york.ac.uk/admin/presspr/pressreleases/tully.htm|title=Mark Tully to give annual Toleration lecture at the University of York|publisher=The University of York|access-date=25 November 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091018203226/http://www.york.ac.uk/admin/presspr/pressreleases/tully.htm|archive-date=18 October 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="CNN">{{cite news|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/south/12/31/tully.knighthood/|title=It's Sir Mark Tully in UK honors list|date=31 December 2001|publisher=CNN|access-date=25 November 2009}}</ref>
He was the regular presenter of the weekly [[BBC Radio 4]] programme ''[[Something Understood]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/people/presenters/mark-tully/|title=Mark Tully|publisher=BBC Radio 4|access-date=26 September 2010}}</ref> until the BBC announced its cessation in 2019.<ref>{{cite news|title=Mark Tully: BBC Radio 4 host speaks out on shock programme axe 'I feel sad for myself'|first=Michelle|last=Marshall|url=https://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/1114613/mark-tully-bbc-radio-4-something-understood-axed-latest-news|work=[[Daily Express]]|location=London|date=16 April 2019|access-date=21 April 2019}}</ref>


As a guest of the [[Bangalore Initiative for Religious Dialogue]] on 7 October 2010 he spoke on ''How certain should we be? The problem of religious pluralism''. He described his experiences and the fact that India had historically been home to all the world's major religions.
In 1994 he presented an episode of BBC's ''[[Great Railway Journeys]]'', "Karachi to The Khyber Pass", travelling by train across Pakistan. A well-known railway enthusiast,<ref name=w>{{Cite web |url=https://m.thewire.in/article/communalism/legendary-british-indian-journalist-and-broadcaster-mark-tully-passes-away |title=Legendary British-Indian journalist and broadcaster Mark Tully passes away |work=The Wire |accessdate=25 January 2026}}</ref> he also presented "Steam's Indian Summer",<ref>{{cite web | title=Steam's Indian Summer - English • Great Railways | website=[[YouTube]] | date=25 April 2023 | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdKzSDlO3pA }}</ref> a documentary produced by [[Nick Lera]] in his ''World Steam Classics'' series. As Tully reports in the journal HIMAL,<ref>M Tully, By steam!, HIMAL, 1 October 2011, [https://www.himalmag.com/archives/by-steam] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250812122706/https://www.himalmag.com/archives/by-steam |date=12 August 2025 }}</ref> the two men could not be sure where steam trains were still operating and they travelled around India together locating and filming them.
He said that had taught him that there are many ways to God.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hafsite.org/media/pr/former-bbc-india-chief-highlights-multiple-paths-god |publisher=Hindu American Foundation |title=Former BBC-India Chief Highlights Multiple Paths To God |date=19 October 2010 |access-date=12 April 2012}}</ref>
Tully is patron of the British branch of [[Child In Need Institute (CINI)|Child in Need India]] (CINI UK).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cini.org.uk/about.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=2012-01-11 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120120104023/http://www.cini.org.uk/about.html |archive-date=20 January 2012 }}</ref>
Tully is equally well versed in English and [[Hindi]]. He had contributed his heartfelt efforts to keep literature alive and had been key speaker among 50 speakers of second [[Kalinga Literary Festival]] on 17 May 2015, where he explored the role of literature in nation building.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2015-05-02|title=50 Speakers to attend Kalinga Literary Festival 2015|url=https://odishanewsinsight.com/events/50-speakers-to-attend-kalinga-literary-festival-2015/|access-date=2020-11-07|website=Odisha News Insight|language=en-US}}</ref>


==Awards and honours==
From 1994, he worked as a freelance journalist and broadcaster based in [[New Delhi]].<ref name="uy">{{cite web|url=http://www.york.ac.uk/admin/presspr/pressreleases/tully.htm|title=Mark Tully to give annual Toleration lecture at the University of York|publisher=The University of York|access-date=25 November 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091018203226/http://www.york.ac.uk/admin/presspr/pressreleases/tully.htm|archive-date=18 October 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="CNN">{{cite news|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/south/12/31/tully.knighthood/|title=It's Sir Mark Tully in UK honors list|date=31 December 2001|publisher=CNN|access-date=25 November 2009|archive-date=4 April 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110404094404/http://edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/south/12/31/tully.knighthood/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Tully was made an Officer of the [[Order of the British Empire]] in 1985 and was awarded the [[Padma Shree]] in 1992.<ref name="th2" /> He was [[knight]]ed in the [[New Year Honours 2002]],<ref name="PTI">{{cite news |url=http://www.hindu.com/2002/01/01/stories/2002010101621500.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629052710/http://www.hindu.com/2002/01/01/stories/2002010101621500.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=29 June 2011 |title=An honour, says Tully |date=1 January 2002 |work=[[The Hindu]] |access-date=25 November 2009}}</ref> receiving a [[Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire|KBE]], and in 2005 he received the [[Padma Bhushan]].<ref name="ig">{{cite web |url=http://india.gov.in/myindia/padmabhushan_awards_list1.php?start=120 |title=Padma Bhushan Awardees |year=2005 |publisher=Indian government |access-date=25 November 2009}}</ref> BAFTA in 1985 for lifelong achievement.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1985/television/richard-dimbleby-award|title=BAFTA Awards|website=awards.bafta.org|access-date=2016-11-25}}</ref>
 
He was conferred the coveted RedInk Lifetime Achievement Award of the Mumbai Press Club
He was the regular presenter of the weekly [[BBC Radio 4]] programme ''[[Something Understood]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/people/presenters/mark-tully/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110204141000/http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/people/presenters/mark-tully/|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 February 2011|title=Mark Tully|publisher=BBC Radio 4|access-date=26 September 2010}}</ref> until the BBC announced its end in 2019.<ref>{{cite news|title=Mark Tully: BBC Radio 4 host speaks out on shock programme axe 'I feel sad for myself'|first=Michelle|last=Marshall|url=https://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/1114613/mark-tully-bbc-radio-4-something-understood-axed-latest-news|work=[[Daily Express]]|location=London|date=16 April 2019|access-date=21 April 2019}}</ref>
 
As a guest of the [[Bangalore Initiative for Religious Dialogue]], on 7 October 2010 he spoke on "How certain should we be? The problem of religious pluralism." He described his experiences and the fact that India had historically been home to all the world's major religions. He said that had taught him that there are many ways to God.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hafsite.org/media/pr/former-bbc-india-chief-highlights-multiple-paths-god |publisher=Hindu American Foundation |title=Former BBC-India Chief Highlights Multiple Paths To God |date=19 October 2010 |access-date=12 April 2012 |archive-date=15 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315015252/http://www.hafsite.org/media/pr/former-bbc-india-chief-highlights-multiple-paths-god |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Mark Tully: From Bangladesh war to Bluestar, BBC's voice of India chronicled it all |url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/india/from-bangladesh-war-to-bluestar-bbcs-voice-of-india-chronicled-it-all/ |website=The Tribune |access-date=26 January 2026 |language=en}}</ref>
 
Tully was patron of the British branch of [[Child In Need Institute (CINI)|Child in Need India]] (CINI UK).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cini.org.uk/about.html |title=About Us &#124; Child in Need India &#124; CINI |access-date=11 January 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120120104023/http://www.cini.org.uk/about.html |archive-date=20 January 2012 }}</ref>
 
Equally well versed in English and [[Hindi]], he contributed his efforts to keep literature alive and was the key speaker among 50 speakers of second [[Kalinga Literary Festival]] on 17 May 2015, where he explored the role of literature in nation building.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2 May 2015|title=50 Speakers to attend Kalinga Literary Festival 2015|url=https://odishanewsinsight.com/events/50-speakers-to-attend-kalinga-literary-festival-2015/|access-date=7 November 2020|website=Odisha News Insight|language=en-US}}</ref>


==Books==
==Books==
Tully's first book on India ''Amritsar: Mrs Gandhi's Last Battle'' (1985) was co-authored with his colleague at BBC Delhi, Satish Jacob; the book dealt with the events leading up to [[Operation Blue Star]], Indian military action carried out between 1 and 8 June 1984 to remove militant religious leader [[Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale]] and his followers from the buildings of the [[Harmandir Sahib]] (Golden Temple) complex in [[Amritsar]], Punjab.
Tully's first book on India, ''Amritsar: Mrs Gandhi's Last Battle'' (1985),<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tully |first1=Mark |last2=Jacob |first2=Satish |title=Amritsar: Mrs Gandhi's last battle |date=1986 |publisher=Pan Books |location=London Sydney |isbn=9780330294348 |edition=Revised|ol=OL14993348M }}</ref> was co-authored with his colleague at BBC Delhi, Satish Jacob; the book dealt with the events leading up to [[Operation Blue Star]], Indian military action carried out between 1 and 8 June 1984 to remove militant religious leader [[Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale]] and his followers from the buildings of the [[Harmandir Sahib]] (Golden Temple) complex in [[Amritsar]], Punjab.<ref name=w />
 
Tully's ''No Full Stops in India'' (1988),<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tully |first1=Mark |title=No full stops in India |date=1991 |publisher=Viking |location=New Delhi, India ; New York, N.Y., U.S.A |isbn=9780670819195}}</ref> a collection of journalistic essays, was published in the US as ''The Defeat of a Congress-man''. ''[[The Independent]]'' wrote that "Tully's profound knowledge and sympathy ... unravels a few of the more bewildering and enchanting mysteries of the subcontinent."<ref name="Independent">{{cite web |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/book-review--paperbacks-no-full-stops-in-india--mark-tully-penguin-pounds-699-1552481.html |title=The Independent |publisher=independent.co.uk |work=Book Review: No Full Stops in India |date=20 September 1992 |access-date=22 November 2011}}</ref>


His next book ''Raj to Rajiv: 40 Years of Indian Independence'' was written with Zareer Masani, and was based on a BBC radio series of the same name. In the US, this book was published under the title ''India: Forty Years of Independence''.
In 2002 came ''India in Slow Motion'',<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tully |first1=Mark |last2=Wright |first2=Gillian |title=India in slow motion |date=2002 |publisher=Viking |location=New Delhi |isbn=9780670049400 |edition=1. publ. in India}}</ref> written in collaboration with Gillian Wright and published by Viking. Reviewing the book in ''[[The Observer]]'', Michael Holland wrote of Tully that "Few foreigners manage to get under the skin of the world's biggest democracy the way he does, and fewer still can write about it with the clarity and insight he brings to all his work."<ref name="Observer">{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/dec/07/features.review?INTCMP=SRCH |title=The Observer |publisher=guardian.co.uk |work=Slow Progress: Michael Holland on India in Slow Motion by Mark Tully |date=7 December 2003 |access-date=22 November 2011 |author=Holland, Michael}}</ref>


Tully's ''No Full Stops in India'' (1988), a collection of journalistic essays, was published in the US as ''The Defeat of a Congress-man''. [[The Independent]] wrote that ''"Tully's profound knowledge and sympathy .. unravels a few of the more bewildering and enchanting mysteries of the subcontinent."''<ref name="Independent">{{cite web |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/book-review--paperbacks-no-full-stops-in-india--mark-tully-penguin-pounds-699-1552481.html |title=The Independent |publisher=independent.co.uk |work=Book Review: No Full Stops in India |date=20 September 1992 |access-date=22 November 2011}}</ref>
The anonymously authored ''Hindutva Sex and Adventure'' was a novel featuring a main character with strong similarities to Tully. Tully himself stated that "I am amazed that Roli Books should publish such thinly disguised [[plagiarism]], and allow the author to hide in a cavalier manner behind a ''nom-de-plume''. The book is clearly modelled on my career, even down to the name of the main character. That character's journalism is abysmal, and his views on Hindutva and Hinduism do not in any way reflect mine. I would disagree with them profoundly."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/7552715/Former-BBC-correspondent-Sir-Mark-Tully-attacked-in-novel.html |title=Former BBC correspondent Sir Mark Tully attacked in novel |first=Dean |last=Nelson |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=5 April 2010 |access-date=27 September 2010 |location=London}}</ref>


Tully's only work of fiction, ''The Heart of India'', was published in 1995.
His last book, ''Upcountry Tales: Once Upon A Time In The Heart Of India'' (2017),<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tully |first1=Mark |title=Upcountry tales: once upon a time in the heart of India |date=2017 |publisher=Speaking Tiger |location=New Delhi |isbn=9789386582690}}</ref> was a collection of short stories set in rural north India.<ref>{{cite web|title=Mark Tully's latest from the frontlines of 'upcountry India'|url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/nation/mark-tully-s-latest-from-the-frontlines-of-upcountry-india/496509.html|website=[[The Tribune (Chandigarh)|The Tribune]]|access-date=9 January 2018|date=12 November 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=A date with destiny|url=http://www.tabla.com.sg/jrsrc/050118full/epage004/TA20180105-TAB-004-00.html|website=[[tabla!]]|access-date=9 January 2018|date=5 January 2018}}</ref>


In 2002 came ''India in Slow Motion'', written in collaboration with Gillian Wright and published by Viking. Reviewing the book in ''[[The Observer]]'', Michael Holland wrote of Tully that ''"Few foreigners manage to get under the skin of the world's biggest democracy the way he does, and fewer still can write about it with the clarity and insight he brings to all his work."''<ref name="Observer">{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/dec/07/features.review?INTCMP=SRCH |title=The Observer |publisher=guardian.co.uk |work=Slow Progress: Michael Holland on India in Slow Motion by Mark Tully |date=7 December 2003 |access-date=22 November 2011 |author=Holland, Michael}}</ref>
==Personal life and death==
In 1960 Tully married Margaret, with whom he had four children during the 1960s. However, after 1981, he lived in [[Nizamuddin West]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=25 January 2026 |title=An era ends with Mark Tully: A Delhi life remembered by Mayank Austen Soofi |url=https://www.exchange4media.com/media-others-news/an-era-ends-with-mark-tully-a-delhi-life-remembered-by-mayank-austen-soofi-151352.html |access-date=25 January 2026 |website=Exchange4media}}</ref> in [[Delhi]] with his girlfriend, Gillian Wright.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1735083.stm |title=Mark Tully: The Voice of India|date=31 December 2001 |publisher=BBC |access-date=28 April 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/Mighty-words-indeed/article14990094.ece |title=Mighty Words Indeed |date=1 November 2016 |newspaper=The Hindu |access-date=28 April 2017}}</ref> Tully held an [[Overseas Citizenship of India]] card.<ref>{{Cite news |date=19 August 2013 |title=Why Mark Tully needs a Calcutta birth certificate at 78 |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-23678823 |access-date=23 March 2024 |work=BBC News}}</ref>


Tully later wrote ''India's Unending Journey'' (2008) and ''India: The Road Ahead'' (2011), published in India under the title ''Non-Stop India''.
Tully died on 25 January 2026 at the age of 90, at a hospital in [[New Delhi]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Malik |first1=Irfan |title=Legendary Journalist Mark Tully Passes Away |url=https://www.thekashmirmonitor.net/legendary-journalist-mark-tully-passes-away/ |access-date=25 January 2026 |publisher=The Kashmir Monitor |date=25 January 2026}}</ref><ref name=bbc>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4nnp4d064do |title=Mark Tully, BBC's "Voice of India", dies aged 90 |work=BBC News |accessdate=25 January 2026}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Mark Tully (1935-2026): The voice that India trusted when history spoke — or fell silent |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/india/mark-tully-1935-2026-the-voice-that-india-trusted-when-history-spoke-or-fell-silent-10494736/ |website=The Indian Express |access-date=26 January 2026|date=26 January 2026}}</ref>


In the area of religion, Tully has written ''An Investigation into The Lives of Jesus'' (1996) to accompany the BBC series of the same name, and ''Mother'' (1992) on [[Mother Teresa]].
He was a member of the [[Oriental Club]] in London.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://pathakshamabesh.com/author/mark-tully-56314|title=Mark Tully|publisher=Pathak Shamabesh|accessdate=12 February 2026}}</ref>


The anonymously authored ''Hindutva Sex and Adventure'' is a novel featuring a main character with strong similarities to Tully. Tully himself has stated that "I am amazed that Roli Books should publish such thinly disguised plagiarism, and allow the author to hide in a cavalier manner behind a ''nom-de-plume''. The book is clearly modelled on my career, even down to the name of the main character. That character's journalism is abysmal, and his views on Hindutva and Hinduism do not in any way reflect mine. I would disagree with them profoundly".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/7552715/Former-BBC-correspondent-Sir-Mark-Tully-attacked-in-novel.html |title=Former BBC correspondent Sir Mark Tully attacked in novel |first=Dean |last=Nelson |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=5 April 2010 |access-date=27 September 2010 |location=London}}</ref>
==Awards and honours==
Tully was made an Officer of the [[Order of the British Empire]] in 1985 and was awarded the [[Padma Shri]] in 1992.<ref name="th2" /> He was [[knight]]ed in the [[New Year Honours 2002]],<ref name="PTI">{{cite news |url=http://www.hindu.com/2002/01/01/stories/2002010101621500.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629052710/http://www.hindu.com/2002/01/01/stories/2002010101621500.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=29 June 2011 |title=An honour, says Tully |date=1 January 2002 |work=[[The Hindu]] |access-date=25 November 2009}}</ref> receiving a [[Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire|KBE]], and in 2005 he received the [[Padma Bhushan]].<ref name="ig">{{cite web |url=http://india.gov.in/myindia/padmabhushan_awards_list1.php?start=120 |title=Padma Bhushan Awardees |year=2005 |publisher=Indian government |access-date=25 November 2009}}</ref>


His latest book ''Upcountry Tales: Once Upon A Time In The Heart Of India'' (2017) is a collection of short stories set in rural north India.<ref>{{cite web|title=Mark Tully's latest from the frontlines of 'upcountry India'|url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/nation/mark-tully-s-latest-from-the-frontlines-of-upcountry-india/496509.html|website=[[The Tribune (Chandigarh)|The Tribune]]|access-date=9 January 2018|date=12 November 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=A date with destiny|url=http://www.tabla.com.sg/jrsrc/050118full/epage004/TA20180105-TAB-004-00.html|website=[[tabla!]]|access-date=9 January 2018|date=5 January 2018}}</ref>
==See also==
* [[List of Indian writers]]


==References==
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==Further reading==
* {{cite web|url=https://chbbc.sussex.ac.uk/play/?id=413|title=Interview with Mark Tully|work=Sussex - BBC Centenary Collection|publisher=Connected Histories of the BBC|date=31 May 2018|accessdate=22 January 2023}}


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Sir Mark Tully

KBE
Tully in 2011
Born
William Mark Tully

(1935-10-24)24 October 1935
Tollygunge, Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India
Died25 January 2026(2026-01-25) (aged 90)
New Delhi, India
EducationMarlborough College
Trinity Hall, Cambridge
Occupation
  • Journalist
  • writer
Children4
Signature
Tully at a function in Delhi in 2007

Sir William Mark Tully (24 October 1935 – 25 January 2026) was a British journalist and the bureau chief of the BBC in New Delhi, a position he held for 20 years.[1] He worked with the BBC for 30 years before resigning in July 1994.[2] He also wrote and published several books.

Early life and education[edit | edit source]

Tully was born in Tollygunge, Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India, on 24 October 1935.[3][4][5] His father was a British businessman who was a partner in one of the leading managing agencies of the British Raj. His mother had been born in Bengal. Tully spent the first decade of his childhood in India, although without being allowed to socialise with Indian people. His British nanny once scolded him for learning to count in Hindi from his driver, saying "that's the servant's language, not yours".[6] At the age of four, he was sent to a "British boarding school" in Darjeeling,[7][8] before going to England for further schooling from the age of nine. There he was educated at Twyford School (Hampshire), Marlborough College and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he studied Theology.[7]

After Cambridge, Tully intended to become a priest in the Church of England but abandoned this after two terms at Lincoln Theological College, admitting later that he had doubts about "trusting [his] sexuality to behave as a Christian priest".[5]

Journalistic career[edit | edit source]

Tully joined the BBC in 1964 and moved back to India in 1965 to work as the corporation's India correspondent.[5][9][10] He covered all the major incidents in South Asia during his tenure, ranging from Indo-Pakistan conflicts, Bhopal gas tragedy, Operation Blue Star (and the subsequent assassination of Indira Gandhi, anti-Sikh riots), the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi to the demolition of Babri Masjid.[11][12][13] He was expelled from India shortly after Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency and began ruling by decree in 1975; he returned a year and a half later shortly before the restoration of normality in the country.[6]

In 1992, when covering the demolition of the Babri Masjid by Hindutva activists, some of the perpetrators confronted him, chanting "Death to Mark Tully", reflecting their distrust of the BBC. Tully was locked in a room until a local official and a Hindu priest helped him leave several hours later; he later said that the demolition was India's "greatest setback" to secularism as an independent nation.[6] He resigned from the BBC in July 1994 after an argument with John Birt, the then director general. He accused Birt of "running the corporation by fear" and "turning the BBC into a secretive monolith with poor ratings and a demoralised staff".[2]

In 1994 he presented an episode of BBC's Great Railway Journeys, "Karachi to The Khyber Pass", travelling by train across Pakistan. A well-known railway enthusiast,[14] he also presented "Steam's Indian Summer",[15] a documentary produced by Nick Lera in his World Steam Classics series. As Tully reports in the journal HIMAL,[16] the two men could not be sure where steam trains were still operating and they travelled around India together locating and filming them.

From 1994, he worked as a freelance journalist and broadcaster based in New Delhi.[9][11]

He was the regular presenter of the weekly BBC Radio 4 programme Something Understood[17] until the BBC announced its end in 2019.[18]

As a guest of the Bangalore Initiative for Religious Dialogue, on 7 October 2010 he spoke on "How certain should we be? The problem of religious pluralism." He described his experiences and the fact that India had historically been home to all the world's major religions. He said that had taught him that there are many ways to God.[19][20]

Tully was patron of the British branch of Child in Need India (CINI UK).[21]

Equally well versed in English and Hindi, he contributed his efforts to keep literature alive and was the key speaker among 50 speakers of second Kalinga Literary Festival on 17 May 2015, where he explored the role of literature in nation building.[22]

Books[edit | edit source]

Tully's first book on India, Amritsar: Mrs Gandhi's Last Battle (1985),[23] was co-authored with his colleague at BBC Delhi, Satish Jacob; the book dealt with the events leading up to Operation Blue Star, Indian military action carried out between 1 and 8 June 1984 to remove militant religious leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and his followers from the buildings of the Harmandir Sahib (Golden Temple) complex in Amritsar, Punjab.[14]

Tully's No Full Stops in India (1988),[24] a collection of journalistic essays, was published in the US as The Defeat of a Congress-man. The Independent wrote that "Tully's profound knowledge and sympathy ... unravels a few of the more bewildering and enchanting mysteries of the subcontinent."[25]

In 2002 came India in Slow Motion,[26] written in collaboration with Gillian Wright and published by Viking. Reviewing the book in The Observer, Michael Holland wrote of Tully that "Few foreigners manage to get under the skin of the world's biggest democracy the way he does, and fewer still can write about it with the clarity and insight he brings to all his work."[27]

The anonymously authored Hindutva Sex and Adventure was a novel featuring a main character with strong similarities to Tully. Tully himself stated that "I am amazed that Roli Books should publish such thinly disguised plagiarism, and allow the author to hide in a cavalier manner behind a nom-de-plume. The book is clearly modelled on my career, even down to the name of the main character. That character's journalism is abysmal, and his views on Hindutva and Hinduism do not in any way reflect mine. I would disagree with them profoundly."[28]

His last book, Upcountry Tales: Once Upon A Time In The Heart Of India (2017),[29] was a collection of short stories set in rural north India.[30][31]

Personal life and death[edit | edit source]

In 1960 Tully married Margaret, with whom he had four children during the 1960s. However, after 1981, he lived in Nizamuddin West[32] in Delhi with his girlfriend, Gillian Wright.[33][34] Tully held an Overseas Citizenship of India card.[35]

Tully died on 25 January 2026 at the age of 90, at a hospital in New Delhi.[36][6][37]

He was a member of the Oriental Club in London.[38]

Awards and honours[edit | edit source]

Tully was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1985 and was awarded the Padma Shri in 1992.[7] He was knighted in the New Year Honours 2002,[39] receiving a KBE, and in 2005 he received the Padma Bhushan.[40]

See also[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ "Media reportage: Interview with Mark Tully". The Hindu. 20 February 2000. Archived from the original on 29 June 2011. Retrieved 25 November 2009.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Victor, Peter (10 July 1994). "Tully quits BBC". The Independent. London. Retrieved 25 November 2009.
  3. ↑ "Why Mark Tully needs a Calcutta birth certificate at 78". BBC News. 20 August 2013. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
  4. ↑ "Birthdays". The Guardian. Guardian News & Media. 29 October 2014. p. 47.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "Mark Tully: The voice of India". London: BBC. 31 December 2001. Retrieved 25 November 2009.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 "Mark Tully, BBC's "Voice of India", dies aged 90". BBC News. Retrieved 25 January 2026.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 "Meeting Mark". The Hindu. 18 June 2007. Archived from the original on 26 June 2011. Retrieved 25 November 2009.
  8. ↑ Lakhani, Brenda (2003). "British and Indian influences in the identities and literature of Mark Tully and Ruskin Bond". University of North Texas. Retrieved 25 November 2009.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Mark Tully to give annual Toleration lecture at the University of York". The University of York. Archived from the original on 18 October 2009. Retrieved 25 November 2009.
  10. ↑ Drogin, Bob (22 December 1992). "Profile The BBC's Battered Sahib Mark Tully has been expelled by India, chased by mobs and picketed. He loves his job". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 25 November 2009.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 "It's Sir Mark Tully in UK honors list". CNN. 31 December 2001. Archived from the original on 4 April 2011. Retrieved 25 November 2009.
  12. ↑ "After Blue Star". BBC. Retrieved 11 January 2010.
  13. ↑ Tully, Mark (5 December 2002). "Tearing down the Babri Masjid". London: BBC. Retrieved 11 January 2010.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 "Legendary British-Indian journalist and broadcaster Mark Tully passes away". The Wire. Retrieved 25 January 2026.
  15. ↑ "Steam's Indian Summer - English • Great Railways". YouTube. 25 April 2023.
  16. ↑ M Tully, By steam!, HIMAL, 1 October 2011, [1] Archived 12 August 2025 at the Wayback Machine
  17. ↑ "Mark Tully". BBC Radio 4. Archived from the original on 4 February 2011. Retrieved 26 September 2010.
  18. ↑ Marshall, Michelle (16 April 2019). "Mark Tully: BBC Radio 4 host speaks out on shock programme axe 'I feel sad for myself'". Daily Express. London. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
  19. ↑ "Former BBC-India Chief Highlights Multiple Paths To God". Hindu American Foundation. 19 October 2010. Archived from the original on 15 March 2012. Retrieved 12 April 2012.
  20. ↑ "Mark Tully: From Bangladesh war to Bluestar, BBC's voice of India chronicled it all". The Tribune. Retrieved 26 January 2026.
  21. ↑ "About Us | Child in Need India | CINI". Archived from the original on 20 January 2012. Retrieved 11 January 2012.
  22. ↑ "50 Speakers to attend Kalinga Literary Festival 2015". Odisha News Insight. 2 May 2015. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  23. ↑ Tully, Mark; Jacob, Satish (1986). Amritsar: Mrs Gandhi's last battle (Revised ed.). London Sydney: Pan Books. ISBN 9780330294348. OL 14993348M.
  24. ↑ Tully, Mark (1991). No full stops in India. New Delhi, India ; New York, N.Y., U.S.A: Viking. ISBN 9780670819195.
  25. ↑ "The Independent". Book Review: No Full Stops in India. independent.co.uk. 20 September 1992. Retrieved 22 November 2011.
  26. ↑ Tully, Mark; Wright, Gillian (2002). India in slow motion (1. publ. in India ed.). New Delhi: Viking. ISBN 9780670049400.
  27. ↑ Holland, Michael (7 December 2003). "The Observer". Slow Progress: Michael Holland on India in Slow Motion by Mark Tully. guardian.co.uk. Retrieved 22 November 2011.
  28. ↑ Nelson, Dean (5 April 2010). "Former BBC correspondent Sir Mark Tully attacked in novel". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 27 September 2010.
  29. ↑ Tully, Mark (2017). Upcountry tales: once upon a time in the heart of India. New Delhi: Speaking Tiger. ISBN 9789386582690.
  30. ↑ "Mark Tully's latest from the frontlines of 'upcountry India'". The Tribune. 12 November 2017. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
  31. ↑ "A date with destiny". tabla!. 5 January 2018. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
  32. ↑ "An era ends with Mark Tully: A Delhi life remembered by Mayank Austen Soofi". Exchange4media. 25 January 2026. Retrieved 25 January 2026.
  33. ↑ "Mark Tully: The Voice of India". BBC. 31 December 2001. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
  34. ↑ "Mighty Words Indeed". The Hindu. 1 November 2016. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
  35. ↑ "Why Mark Tully needs a Calcutta birth certificate at 78". BBC News. 19 August 2013. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
  36. ↑ Malik, Irfan (25 January 2026). "Legendary Journalist Mark Tully Passes Away". The Kashmir Monitor. Retrieved 25 January 2026.
  37. ↑ "Mark Tully (1935-2026): The voice that India trusted when history spoke — or fell silent". The Indian Express. 26 January 2026. Retrieved 26 January 2026.
  38. ↑ "Mark Tully". Pathak Shamabesh. Retrieved 12 February 2026.
  39. ↑ "An honour, says Tully". The Hindu. 1 January 2002. Archived from the original on 29 June 2011. Retrieved 25 November 2009.
  40. ↑ "Padma Bhushan Awardees". Indian government. 2005. Retrieved 25 November 2009.

Further reading[edit | edit source]

  • "Interview with Mark Tully". Sussex - BBC Centenary Collection. Connected Histories of the BBC. 31 May 2018. Retrieved 22 January 2023.

External links[edit | edit source]

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