"My connection with Calcutta stretches back a long way. It goes back at least to 1857, the year of what my maternal great-grandfather would have called the Indian Mutiny. He managed to escape the uprising in eastern Uttar Pradesh in a boat down the Ganges to Calcutta. My maternal grandfather made his living selling jute in the city. He bought the jute in what is now Bangladesh, which is how my mother happened to be born there. But she met and married my father in Calcutta. He was the first of his family to come to India where he became one of the senior partners of Gillanders Arbuthnot, a Calcutta-based firm."
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Mark Tully
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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