{"id":988021,"date":"2026-01-27T08:21:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T02:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988021"},"modified":"2026-01-27T08:31:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T03:01:34","slug":"mark-tully-bbc-broadcaster-who-was-the-worlds-window-on-india-for-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/27\/mark-tully-bbc-broadcaster-who-was-the-worlds-window-on-india-for-decades\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Tully: BBC broadcaster who was the world\u2019s window on India for decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was never any question that Mark Tully loved India and was devoted to the country. His affection was deep-rooted and sometimes joyously unbuttoned. In 1983, when India won the World Cup for the first time, Tully was coming to visit his close friend and BBC colleague Satish Jacob in Old Delhi. The streets were jammed with people celebrating, and Jacob suddenly spied Tully running down the road, shouting triumphantly, \u201cHum World Cup jeet gaya! Hum sala world jeet gaya!\u201d He then plunged into the crowd, dancing with a whisky bottle in one hand. As Jacob recalled with affection, \u201cHe then came in, and we finished the bottle.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was never any question that Mark Tully loved India and was devoted to the country. His affection was deep-rooted and sometimes joyously unbuttoned. In 1983, when India won the World Cup for the first time, Tully was coming to visit his close friend and BBC colleague Satish Jacob in Old Delhi. The streets were jammed with people celebrating, and Jacob suddenly spied Tully running down the road, shouting triumphantly, \u201cHum World Cup jeet gaya! Hum sala world jeet gaya!\u201d He then plunged into the crowd, dancing with a whisky bottle in one hand. As Jacob recalled with affection, \u201cHe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}