Mark Tully, the BBC's 'voice of India', dies aged 90

‘Unique, the reporter who lived like a local’: Mark Tully, as others remembered him

After Mark Tully’s death last week, the tributes that followed remembered not just a celebrated foreign correspondent, but a presence deeply rooted in India who shaped how generations understood their own history.

Mark Tully, a longtime BBC correspondent known as the “voice of India,” has died at 90

NEW DELHI — Mark Tully, a longtime BBC correspondent who was widely known as the “voice of India” for his reporting on the South Asian nation, has died, the broadcaster said. He was 90.

Mark Tully, BBC’s Voice in South Asia 1935-2026

By: John ElliottPhoto by Parthiv ShahPerhaps no one in living memory has spanned the two cultures of Britain and India as sensitively and closely as Sir Mark Tully, the BBC’s veteran broadcaster, who died in New Delhi age 90 on January 25, a Sunday as he would have wished. His loss will be felt throughout South Asia and across the world where listeners to the BBC will remember the rich tones of his warm but powerful voice, not just reporting on …

Mark Tully, BBC’s longtime ‘voice of India’, dies at 90

He was appointed the BBC's Delhi correspondent in 1971 and served as the chief of the India bureau till 1994.

Mark Tully, BBC correspondent known as the 'voice of India,' dies at 90

Mark Tully, a longtime BBC correspondent known as the “voice of India,” has died at 90. The broadcaster says he died Sunday in New Delhi.

Veteran BBC journalist Mark Tully dies

Veteran BBC correspondent Mark Tully, known to millions as the broadcaster's "voice of India" for covering defining moments across the subcontinent, died in New Delhi on Sunday aged 90, the BBC said. Born in India in 1935 under British India, he made the country his home and his career, becoming arguably the best-known foreign correspondent in the country. "Kolkata-born Tully reported on some of the most defining moments in the region's history,…