In 2007 Walk the Talk with ThePrint Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta, veteran journalist Tully reflects on luck, journalism & his book ‘India's Unending Journey’. Tully passed away Sunday.
I was in Islamabad when Mark Tully broke the news of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto being hanged. I held it against him—he could have tipped me off. But he was a journalist before he was a friend.
Mark Tully witnessed the BBC turn into an anti-India outfit and repeatedly shame and humiliate itself in world circles. Never mind. Tully lives on, and his old BBC lives on.
By the late 90s, radio news had given way to live TV news, and most of us tuned out, too. However, many of us stayed in touch with Mark Tully through is books on India.
This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.
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