The Hindi Medium Types

वो हिंदी मीडियम वाला’ में मुझे अपनी कहानी दिखती है। वास्तविकता का बेवाक चित्रण कर यह पुस्तक झूठी भूलभुलैया से भारत को बाहर निकालने का एक सुखद प्रयास है।

—HC Verma

Padma Shri, Former professor of Physics at IIT Kanpur and the author of the ‘Concepts of Physics’ series

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Amitabh Ji tackles a range of complex issues that have long plagued Indian society. From the biases embedded in our education system to the troubling attitudes perpetuated by Bollywood. He has shown the much-needed light on ways in which the superiority of Western norms has been normalized and internalized in our system at the cost of our own culture.

—Malini Awasthi

Padma Shri. Singer. TV Host. Also known as the “Folk Queen of India”. Visiting professor at JNU.

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‘The English Medium Types’ encapsulates my own experience and of countless others in India subject to discrimination due to the English language. It provides an insight into the trauma who not only finds that the Establishment equates IQ and ability with English ability, it also infuses a person fluent in English with a certain vanity and disdain.

—Sanjay Dixit

Chairman of Jaipur Dialogues, Senior IAS officer

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This book is a red pill. An incisive analysis. An engaging conversation dotted with anecdotes, its wry humour prompting both chuckles and introspection.

India is the only country that looks down upon its own—upon those Indians who speak Indic languages and exhibit Indic culture, snidely labels them as ‘Hindi Medium Types,’ seeing the culturally unconquered among us as inferior! Bestselling author Amitabh Satyam’s The Hindi Medium Types maps the dynamics at play, from institutional patterns and social norms to the individual-level behaviours of this marginalization and its disastrous costs to the nation.

The Hindi Medium Types presents both the big picture as well as the micro incidents of this unique Indian scenario, letting us recognize the colonial biases at play in ourselves and in others—and we get empowered and equipped to counter it.