Jan 28
Mark Tully and the Making of India’s Election Reporting for Rural India and the World
Mark Tully came to be known in India not simply as a foreign correspondent who stayed on, but as a reporter who learned to listen before he spoke. His contribution to Indian journalism lay less in breaking news than in explaining India to itself, especially to those who were rarely the centre of political attention. Now that he is gone, it is worth recalling how deeply he shaped the way elections and democracy were understood beyond cities and television studios.