India, Feb. 16 -- My tryst with Mark Tully & the Radio!

By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD

Sir Mark Tully, undoubtedly the 'Grand Old Man' of news broadcasting, said his last 'Good Night' to this world last month, on 25th January, though not over the radio, over which he had said whatever he had to say, over thirty long years.

An Indian-born British journalist, he joined the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in 1964 and moved over to India a year later, becoming its Indian correspondent. He served the BBC for exactly thirty years, the last twenty as its Indian bureau chief, based in New Delhi.

Though he studied in England and took up his first job there, India, which eventually became his home, was not new to him, because he was born to...