Born in Calcutta, educated in England, Mark Tully joined the BBC in 1964 and in 1972 became Chief of the Bureau in Delhi. Among the many major stories he has covered are the Bangladesh War, Mrs Gandhi’s Emergency, the execution of Bhutto and the Russian Occupation of Afghanistan. He is now retired from BBC and stays in Delhi.
Satish Jacob was born in Delhi, began his journalistic career with the Statesman, worked in Ethiopia for eight years, and joined the BBC to work with Mark Tully in 1978.