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NEW DELHI, 25 Jan:<\/strong> Veteran journalist Mark Tully, a chronicler of India and an acclaimed author, passed away at a private hospital here on Sunday after suffering multi-organ failure, hospital authorities said. He was 90.<\/p>\n The award-winning journalist was ailing for some time and had been admitted to the Max Hospital in Saket in south Delhi on 21 January, under the head of the nephrology department, a hospital source told PTI.<\/p>\n In a statement, the hospital said, “Max Super Speciality Hospital, Saket, confirms with deep sadness the passing of Mr William Mark Tully on 25 January, 2026, at 2:35 pm. The cause of death was multi-organ failure following a stroke.<\/p>\n “Our thoughts and heartfelt condolences are with his family, loved ones, and all those affected by his passing.”<\/p>\n Satish Jacob, veteran journalist and a close friend of Tully, told PTI, “Mark passed away at Max Hospital Saket this afternoon.”<\/p>\n Born in Calcutta (now Kolkata) on 24 October, 1935, Tully was the chief of bureau for the BBC, New Delhi, for 22 years.<\/p>\n An acclaimed author, Tully was the presenter of the BBC Radio 4 programme ‘Something Understood’.<\/p>\n He was also part of several documentaries on subjects ranging from India and the British Raj to the Indian Railways.<\/p>\n Tully was knighted in 2002 and received the Padma Bhushan from the government of India in 2005.<\/p>\n He wrote several books on India, including No Full Stops in India, India in Slow Motion, and The Heart of India.<\/p>\n Tully’s work with the BBC was underlined by his coverage of some historic episodes in post-independence Indian history.<\/p>\n The major events included the Bangladesh war of 1971 to the Emergency of 1975-77, the execution of former Pakistan president Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1979, Operation Blue Star, the assassination of Indira Gandhi and the anti-Sikh riots in 1984, the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi in 1991, and the demolition of Babri Masjid in 1992.<\/p>\n Operation Blue Star and the Punjab problem were the subjects of Tully’s first book, Amritsar: Mrs Gandhi’s Last Battle (1985), co-written with Satish Jacob.(PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NEW DELHI, 25 Jan: Veteran journalist Mark Tully, a chronicler of India and an acclaimed author, passed away at a private hospital here on Sunday after suffering multi-organ failure, hospital authorities said. He was 90. The award-winning journalist was ailing for some time and had been admitted to the Max Hospital in Saket in south […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-277051","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277066,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277051\/revisions\/277066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}