I understand your view. If he wants to take a stand, no one can overpower him, I dont doubt that.
But Virat doesn't care about kitchen politics. He would have tried to please everyone and move on, which is what he had been doing all along before Sai came to his house.
However my point is that he is forced to take a stand at home due to Sai and her fighting spirit.
If it wasn't Sai, he wouldn't have been as involved in changing ghar ke niyam etc.
If not, then he would have tried to make efforts to find out about his sister. He would have tried to stop them from taunting Karishma. He just believes whatever his family told happened and takes them at face value and think they know what they are doing.
If it was any other girl, C-Gang would have bullied her into giving up her dreams without the blame coming on them and have become Ashwini 2.0. He would have never known what happens with his wife either.
I agree with the fact that Virat wouldn't have known what's going on if it was a girl willing to be the doormat like Ashwini. He wouldn't behave like his father ever but unless someone brings things to his notice and he's forced to take a stand, he won't. I agree that if his wife were to be a typical sacrificing meek woman, she would have been Ashwini 2.0
However, hypothetically, I also feel that if he'd have witnessed his doormat wife going through some kind of humiliation, he would have spoken against it in the mildest of ways and asked his wife to not take it lying down. He did it with Sai too. He told her that she should give it back decently and not take it lying down because he witnessed and sensed what would happen...
In Karishma's case, he's definitely not interfering because a) Karishma's humiliation has not really happened in front of his eyes, and moreover it's usually when karishma herself says or does something out of the line that she's asked to mind her tongue. I think they treat her much better than Sai b) her husband Mohit and in-laws Sonali and Omkar are always around and they all appear to be on the same side as Kaku. He doesn't really interact much with Omkar and Sonali or indulge in their comments or opinions. And he also knows that it is actually Omkar who triggers Sai's reactions like no one else in that house.
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