BoingBoing reader Kevin Slavin says,
I just got back from Mumbai yesterday, and it's true about the scale of the Baazee uproar — it's front page full-width headlines, first the scandal, then the arrest, then the arrest scandal, etc.
Worth noting is the echo to it, also front pages over there — a phonecam snap of some Bollywood celebs kissing in public. It provoked a series of suprisingly fierce newspaper debates over Public Displays of Affection in India overall.
There's a funny logic behind that, considering that almost no one saw the event itself, and that the real Public is the viewers of the news networks which broadcasted the image. The distributed image was considered the documentation of public-ness, rather than a further expression of it.
Link to "Why the phone camera may be kiss of death to secret lives for Bollywood stars: A snatched image breaks a taboo and horrifies India's screen giants" in the Times Online (UK)
