MARK Tully records a radio dispatch from New Delhi’s Jama Masjid.—Photo courtesy BBC News
Mark Tully who died at a private hospital in New Delhi on Sunday was a sensation and a legend in radio journalism, much of it in his avatar as the BBC’s iconic bureau chief in India. Tully was 90 and had been battling esophageal cancer in recent years.
“Tully Saab” was what his favourite cabbies of the black and yellow Ambassador taxi era called him. And Tully Saab was also the envy of foreign journalists covering India and Pakistan as they struggled to break out of his daunting shadow. Mark Fineman of the LA Times was a typical victim.
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