New Delhi, April 29 -- Friends, family and colleagues gathered at the Press Club of India on Tuesday to remember journalists Mark Tully and Raghu Rai, both long-time members who died this year, leaving behind distinct yet intersecting legacies of storytelling.

Veteran journalist Saeed Naqvi opened the evening with an anecdote from 1968, when he and a young Rai slipped into the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's ashram in Rishikesh as The Beatles sought a spiritual retreat.

"It was said of El Cordobez, Spain's greatest matador, that he did not know that the earth was round. Raghu did not quite know who the Beatles were until I dragged him to Chaurasi Kutia in Rishikesh. All the foreign correspondents waited outside while we sneaked in. I pointed ou...