Defamation Against Blind Items

What are Blind Items? 

Modern technology has revolutionized how we disseminate and record information and its no doubt that this has led to an increase in the commercial exploitation of the private lives of public personalities and celebrities often hurting the sentiments and reputation of such people. Several magazines and tabloids publish regular columns on celebrities. A blind item is a column wherein the name / identity of the celebrities being discussed is obscured. Such items are typically brief describing certain events surrounding the celebrity and often posing questions to the public to partake in a game of guesses in the comments section. On the face of it, such blind items may be perceived as harmless. However, blind items ostensibly function with zero restrictions. In India, several websites are dedicated to publishing blind items about Bollywood celebrities. Blind items are popular because they safeguard entities from potential lawsuits ¹  and thus go