The Times of India seems to have partnered up with a website called hotklix.com. This latter site can be most charitably described as a soft porn website, promising voyeurs uncensored videos, "hot masala" or "pink bikini pics" of Bollywood starlets. This site does not really produce content, it actually links to several blogs and spurious sites that actually host such content.
Links to this site appear not only from the TOI landing page but as the above screenshot shows, they appear on the side panels of stories.
In any case, we almost could not believe it when the above link inviting users to "poke" politicians appeared on a TOI page, for instance try this one. This must be one of the funnier instances where cultural aspects get lost in translation.
So, before you go around "poking" politicians or others on facebook or some such networking sites, we urge you to watch this [YouTube] segment from a classic show.
1 comment:
Hotklix is actually OWNED by TOI. At the bottom of the hotklix homepage there is a link for Careers at Times Internet Limited!!
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