Between them they straddle many decades of journalistic endeavour and so, when the man of the moment Rajdeep Sardesai took to Twitter, to vocalize his dismay at fellow Mumbai hack Minhaz Merchant, it created a bit of a story on the micro-blogging site.

After all, both men, scribes of distinction, had grown up in South Mumbai attended the same school (Cathedral), and had worked at more or less the same establishments. The problem occurred when Merchant, after watching Sardesai's interview of Lalit Modi tweeted 'Last bit of @LalitKModi interview cut short because too many Cong names were being implicated.