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

NEW DELHI (AP) — 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.

Tully died Sunday at a New Delhi hospital after a brief illness.

Born in India’s Kolkata city in 1935, Tully joined the BBC in 1965 and was appointed its New Delhi correspondent in 1971. He later served for more than two decades as the BBC’s bureau chief for South Asia.

Tully reported on some of India’s most consequential events...