
New Delhi: Writer Mark Tully on Tuesday slammed the government for not coming clean on the Salman Rushdie issue, saying if someone has offended religion sentiments then there is law to deal with it. "Salman Rushdie should have been allowed to enter in this country because that is the law of the land. Government is not coming clean on the issue from the very begining. This is very sad indeed...

04:54 PM, Jan 24, 2012

HYDERABAD: Students lit up the ongoing Hyderabad Literary Festival at the Taramati Baradari on Tuesday, day two of the three-day long event. The response, which was lukewarm on the opening day, improved in part to more awareness and also the added attraction of the visit of Mark Tully, the veteran journalist. However, to their disappointment Sir Mark couldnt make it owing to ill-health. Among the highlights of the day were...

08:49 AM, Jan 18, 2012

When Mark Tully co-authored his first book on India, I'm told he was tempted to sign off after every 200 words. Not because he did not have enough to say, but electronic media drills into you the idea of economy of words. And it's not such a handicap when the subject you choose is a humongous country of over a billion people. Mark Tully has skillfully told the story of...

06:12 PM, Nov 17, 2011

It is a muddle of a new kind. An anti-corruption crusade which has united Indians as a single soul after 65 years and a resurgent nation that pines for salvation through its economic policy of vigorous privatisation and lowering of barriers could seem incompatible. Yet they co-exist in chaotic bliss. Veteran journalist and inveterate writer Mark Tully tries to freeze in fine print this blundering nation of 1.2 billion on...

12:56 PM, Nov 09, 2011

In conversation with Karan Thapar, author-historian William Dalrymple and author-journalist Mark Tully share their views on what they think would become of the Commonwealth Games. ...

09:10 PM, Aug 22, 2010

With a special foreword by Mark Tully, the book is available at just Rs 3,500. ...

01:42 AM, Sep 20, 2009

Author Mark Tully is back with his latest work on his country of choice. ...

04:16 PM, Jun 19, 2007

Ramchandra Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi was cremated on June 13, in the presence of his family and friends. ...

02:48 PM, Jun 14, 2007

Here is what some well-known faces from various fields have to say of India in its 60th year of Independence. ...

04:46 PM, Jan 26, 2007