Sir Mark Tully: The Christian who
believes in karma
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Most mornings, Sir Mark Tully, the celebrated veteran BBC India correspondent and still one
of Britain’s favourite
broadcasters, can be seen walking his two Labradors in New Delhi’s ancient Lodhi Gardens.
Cane in hand, dressed in crisp,
white kurta pyjamas, he is every inch the English gentleman journalist who has given his heart
to his adoptive country.
He is known, affectionately and respectfully, as “Tullysahib”. The epithet reflects not only
admiration for his 46 years spent
reporting from the sub-continent, from the assassinations of Indira and Rajiv Gandhi and the
Bhopal gas disaster to the
destruction of the Babri mosque by Hindu nationalists at Ayodhya, but also recognition that
time has given an Indian accent t
o certain words, and a Hindustani aspect to some gestures.
However much of him India has claimed, he has always clung resolutely to his Christian faith,
as devoted to the Anglican
Church today as he was as a schoolboy at Marlborough, a theology student at Cambridge, and
at Lincoln Theology College,
where he once hoped to become a priest. He remains a regular worshipper at Cathedral Church
of the Redemption in the I
ndian capital.
Yet now, at the age of 76, Sir Mark appears to have embarked on a spiritual journey that few of
his fellow worshippers there,
and almost one million devoted listeners of his Sunday evening programme Something
Understood on BBC Radio 4, would
consider recognisably Christian: he has accepted the eastern religious ideas of karma and
reincarnation.
There are different interpretations of karma and reincarnation within the Hindu and Buddhist
traditions, but Sir Mark has
come to believe that he will be born again into a new life, the nature of which will be
determined by how he has lived and
behaved in this one.
His journey has taken him to a place where he no longer accepts central Christian tenets of
God’s forgiveness and redemption,
or the physical resurrection of Christ. And he must reconcile somehow this departure with his
refusal to give up his connection
to the Anglican Church.
At home in his ground floor flat in Nizamuddin West, a largely Muslim neighbourhood, Tully
confesses that his long-term
partner Gillian Wright once told him “you love the Church more than you love Jesus”.
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