If we believe that good journalists must be prepared to devote every fibre of their being to get to their news source, then the tight knot of news men and women that formed around Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the Diwali milan held by his party on November 28 should gladden every democratic Indian heart. 

Here, indeed, was a stirring chase for breaking news. 

But it was a chase with a twist -- this was not about achieving self-made journalism but becoming selfie-made journalists.