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As if poor Sanjaya Malakar, whose talent-free, network-destabilizing run on American Idol ended on Wednesday night, hasn't suffered enough, he now must face the indignity of knowing that 1.1 billion Indian citizens have risen up with one voice to celebrate his dismissal. This report of supposedly monolithic scorn, however, has us suspicious that the writer might not have done his due diligence in the pursuit of an easy hit piece; had he penetrated the subject more deeply than merely rounding up some anti-Malakar pieces from the Indian media, he probably could've turned up at least one ponyhawked, tone-deaf teenage dissident willing to offer a word of encouragement to his American TV hero.