Great Analysis Azk. You listed all the points very well.
Here's what I think will happen. (this is just for fun, and based on past experience with the show...so koi mujhe peetna nahin)Natasha will come with bloody lip and say Kartik hit her. Niharika will go off about middle class mentality.Ram will say "Choti, tune hi kuch kiya hoga"Priya will call Kartik and ask him to meet her at the "Rickshaw Waala's mohalla"Priya will take Nuts with her too. There they will see a Rickshaw waala drunk, and beating his wife. Both Kartik and Natasha will get a lecture from Priya madam.And then they will hug and make up. (raste me kiss and make up nahin kar sakte na...woh bhi Rickshaw waala ke aage)When they come back to Kapoor Mansion to announce that all is well, Ram will order Nuts and Kartik to feed each other kulfi to seal the deal.End of this story...On to the next issue!