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Mark Tully Quotes

1935–2026 England

Sir William Mark Tully, KBE (24 October 1935 – 25 January 2026) was a former Bureau Chief of BBC, New Delhi. He worked for BBC for a period of 30 years before resigning in July 1994.

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England struck me as a very miserable place, dark and drab, without the bright skies of India.

There is blind secularism in this country [India]. If anyone speaks about Hinduism in this country, they are branded as Hindu fundamentalists.

There is hope: in a fiercely independent Supreme court, a crusading free press and an absolute commitment to representative democracy. It's time to slip those last reins of rundown colonial institutions.

I am very proud to have worked with the BBC for 30 years. I had hoped to continue to work for the corporation but that is no longer possible.

I hate to lose my connection with the great city of Calcutta.

It is not too difficult to find people in that country [Ireland] crying over what they have lost.

I just knew I could not trust my sexuality to behave as a Christian priest should, And I didn't want to be a cause of scandal.

I had rather thought I was yesterday's man.

Hinduism can survive modern times if only the people learn to bend with the wind. People will have to find a balance between the new and the old.

It struck me that a sense of uncertainty about ways of reaching God is what makes Hinduism different. Because of its ability to adapt, so many faiths could thrive here.

Though I was born in India (Kolkata), I was taught how not to become an Indian.

Whenever I go and give a talk on Hinduism, and when I say something nice about it, invariably someone from the audience will object: "I think Hinduism is a disgusting religion because of the caste system."

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mark Tully (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.