However, so far few drivers are buying it. October, before the festival of Diwali, is reckoned to be an auspicious time to get a family motor, and last month car sales in India rose by 38% compared with a year earlier. But only 3,065 Nanos were sold, a paltry 2% rise on the year before (and well down on September), with cumulative sales for the year reaching just 40,467.
What is more, Mr Assange seems unwilling to reflect on the risks of what he is doing. Amnesty International has complained that documents in WikiLeaks' release on Afghanistan were not sufficiently edited, and thus likely to endanger Afghans who had worked for the coalition. Even such supporters as Birgitta Jonsdottir, an Icelandic member of parliament, has expressed disappointment over how the documents were released. Mr Assange disagrees, saying that nobody needed protection as a result of the release-citing, of all sources, NATO in kabul. In contrast, Mr Ellsberg is more self-critical and concedes, for instance, that the publication of the Pentagon Papers actually had no effect on the war in Vietnam.