BBC’s veteran India correspondent Sir Mark Tully passes away at 90

Veteran broadcaster and journalist Sir Mark Tully, long regarded as the BBC’s “voice of India”, has died at the age of 90. The award-winning journalist had been unwell for some time and was admitted to Max Hospital in Delhi’s Saket over the past week. The news of his passing was confirmed by veteran journalist and Tully’s close friend Satish Jacob.

For decades, Tully’s distinctive, warm voice was familiar to BBC audiences in Britain and across the world. As one of the corporation’s most respected foreign correspondents, he reported extensively from India, covering some of the country’s most defining moments.