Hindi Medium

Indian society is no stranger to discrimination. People are treated with disdain on account of their colour, caste, religion, and even marital status. And a person's ability to speak English well is another scale to measure their worth by, with the chasms between social classes filled with the differences in accents and pronunciations.

Much like this country's obsession with equating a fair complexion to loveliness, the (sometimes unconscious) bias against those who can't quote Blake and Wordsworth at the drop of a hat is perhaps part of a colonial hangover. With Hindi Medium, S....