Sabriwithrealitycheck

  Sir William Mark Tully, one of the respected voices in Indian journalism and broadcasting, passed away at the age of 90 in a Delhi hospital. Born in Tollygunge, Calcutta, to British parents, Mark spent his early years in India before being sent to England for his education at Marlborough College and later at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Journalism was not Mark Tully’s first choice. In his early years, he aspired to become a priest, but that path was closed to him after an interaction with a bishop, who ultimately rejected his application for the priesthood. Finally, Mark joined the BBC and returned to India in 1964 as the BBC’s India correspondent, later serving the organisation as Bureau Chief in New Delhi. He became a leading voice in Indian journalism, known for his distinct ethos, and remained at the forefront of news-making for nearly three decades until stepping down from the BBC in 1994. Mark was among the rare journalists who bore witness to modern India in the making, ...

Trump in Davos, oh my world, what a speech by the President of the United States. What should have been a sober presidential address instead unfolded like a campaign rally, full of bravado and self-congratulation. It sounded less like diplomacy and more like domestic political theatre, with global crises reduced to backdrops for personal branding. In that moment, statecraft gave way to spectacle. The setting made the performance all the more revealing. Davos likes to present itself as the command centre of neoliberal global governance, a gathering where political leaders, corporate executives, financiers, and policy experts claim to manage the world through markets and technocratic expertise. Yet Trump’s speech avoided any serious engagement with the structural failures of this system: widening inequality, ecological collapse, labour precarity, or the permanent state of war that shapes much of the Global South. For audiences in India and South Asia, these omissions are not abstract, ...