I'm going to keep this short, but I felt an update was necessary to my post the other day about Richard Gere and Indian hottie Shilpa Shetty getting in hot water over a little on-screen smooching.
Essentially, it appears that India has sort of a similar situation with respect to sexual morality issues as we do here in the States, namely that there are some extremely conservative and extremely vocal groups who tend to shoot their mouths off a lot, but who also win a little ground through the principle of "the squeaky wheel gets the grease." That would explain why an actual court was willing to issue arrest warrants, warrants which will probably not hold up.
More mainstream Indians, as far as I understand, seem to have reacted to this incident sort of the way ordinary Americans reacted to the media circus over the Janet Jackson nipple incident of a few years ago--in other words, even if they felt it wasn't an appropriate thing to do on television, they didn't exactly burst a blood vessel over it, either.
My previous article was also a bit insulting, and I apologize for that.
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