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The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has located the birth certificate of celebrated author Mark Tully,who also remained the BBC correspondent in India for nearly half a century,from the Raj era archives.
Tully,78,who was born at Regent Park in Tollygunj area here (then in undivided 24-Parganas district) on October 24 1935,needs the certificate to apply for the Overseas Citizen of India status and had written to KMC mayor Sovan Chatterjee for the same.
The birth was registered by the Registrar of Births,Deaths and Marriages,Alipore,on November 21,1935. William Mark Tully,as his name is registered,was born of William Scarth Carlisle Tully and Patience Treby Tully.
The document,found in Corporation archives November 14,will be handed over to Tully at a programme here on Tuesday,KMC Mayor-in-Council (Health) Atin Ghosh said Monday. Tullys application for his birth certificate on August 5 spurred KMC health department into action and was located in archives at its headquarters.
After receiving the request,we made a comprehensive search of our records and obtained the pre-Independence document from our archives. We are ready to hand it over to him, Ghosh said.
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