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Chennai, India

The Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Private Limited, a subsidiary of the U.S.-based Coca-Cola Company, has threatened one of India's most prominent artists with a lawsuit if he doesn't remove a billboard. Sharad Haksar photographed a Coca-Cola sign alongside water jugs and a dry pump and posted it on a billboard in the city of Chennai to draw attention to water shortages near Coca-Cola's bottling plants. On July 11, Coca-Cola warned that it was seeking about $45,000 from Haksar for "incalculable...