As a child of rich British parents in West Bengal’s Tollygunge in the late 1930s, Mark Tully was not allowed to socialise with locals.
As if in a karmic response to his parents’ preferences, Tully spent a lifetime in India as a journalist and observer, mingling with its people and telling their stories, including from some of the most remarkable chapters in the country’s eventful past.
The renowned journalist, author and Indophile breathed his last at a private hospital here on Sunday at the age of 90. He was ailing for some time and had been admitted to the Max Hospital in Saket for the past week.
Born in 1935 in Tollygunge, Tully had spent the first decade of his life in India, studying at a boarding school in Darjeeling before he was sent off to England for further education.
In an interview to the BBC in 2001 after he was selected for Knighthood, Tully remembered England as “a very miserable place dark and drab, without the bright skies of India”.
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