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Indian state drops cartoonist’s sedition charge

Indian prosecutors dropped sedition charges Friday against a cartoonist whose arrest over his anti-corruption drawings outraged freedom of speech campaigners, his lawyer said. Aseem Trivedi, whose online cartoons include the national parliament depicted as a huge toilet bowl, was detained in Mumbai. Rohini Nilekani pours her wealth into getting books to India’s poorest children. “My mission is to put a book in every child’s hand,” says Rohini Nilekani. That’s an ambitious goal anywhere, but especially in India, where there are more than 300 million children, most of whom can’t afford books, or even read. Ms. Nilekani is founder-chairperson of Pratham Books, a nonprofit publishing group.