Sanjaya's 'Idol' Run Not India's Fault

"So much for the Indian Call Center Theory: Under-talented singer Sanjaya Malakar's unlikely wave of 'American Idol' support apparently isn't coming from his father's homeland.
Indians are usually attuned to the successes of their compatriots abroad. But apart from a few brief newspaper articles, at least one short TV news segment and a few blog mentions, the reedy 17-year-old with the unsteady voice is a virtual unknown here.
One reason is that the show is broadcast a day late in India, and on an English-language channel that attracts relatively few viewers in this country of 1.1 billion.
'He's also an object of ridicule,' said Amit Varma, who runs the popular India Uncut blog."