The news media is often accused of being unceasingly negative. So, in a renewed spirit of positivity, we doff our hats to Sir Mark Tully, who has just turned 80. His gravelly voice no longer rules the air waves and a new generation may need to be told who he was. But Tully ‘sahib’ was India’s first celebrity journalist, a cult figure known, admired and trusted wherever the BBC reached, the man Rajiv turned to, to confirm his mother’s death even though it was Indira who had thrown out the BBC’s man in Delhi for doing his job.