Tully reported on wars, the Emergency, riots and Operation Blue Star, and wrote several books about India.
British journalist and broadcaster Mark Tully, known as the BBC’s “voice of India”, died on Sunday. He was 90.
He had been in hospital for a week, ANI reported.
Born in Kolkata, Tully moved to the United Kingdom before returning to India for work in 1965. He started as an administrative assistant at the British state broadcaster and went on to become the BBC’s bureau chief in New Delhi, a position he held for two decades.
Tully’s reportage included wars between India and Pakistan, the Emergency, riots, the Bhopal gas tragedy and Operation Blue Star.
In 1984, Indira Gandhi, the prime minister at the time, had ordered the military operation to extract Sikh militants who had allegedly stored weapons inside the Golden Temple premises.
