‘Voice of India’ William Mark Tully no more; BBC journalist who chronicled three Indian decades dies

William Mark Tully, the celebrated BBC journalist who chronicled three eventful decades of Indian history with insight and integrity and sometimes collided with its more authoritarian trajectories, died at a private hospital here on Sunday. He was 90.

The British Broadcasting Corporation’s “Voice of India” was born to British parents in Tollygunge, Calcutta, in 1935. He left with his family soon after the Second World War, only to return to India as a BBC operative in 1965.