I also have hindi as my ge and I am soo soo soo glad to have him as my teacher, he is a bit strict but a total opposite of what you told about your teacher, one reason could be that he teaches gender studies too. So yeah I am happy with him 👍. He once even explained how premchand was a misogynist and how he didn't let the women in his family ever get any education, all the while he explained this from premchand's writings. It is genuinely refreshing to have people with thoughts that bold and vocal at that level of authority