I don't quite understand everyone's frustration with the episode today.
Agreed it was pretty infuriating to watch adi being guilt tripped into staying silent but we as audience have character analysed malini into soo much depth that i feel we are pretty disconnected with what the other characters in the show know.
We seem to be forgetting here that aditya and malini were together for 7 yrs. Malini in a few months has already understood how to trigger imlie into feeling guilty soo it makes sense if she already knows how to trigger and guilt adi into staying mum, like the back of her hand. And for adi we still need to put a thought in his shoes. Aditya has been with this lady for the past 7 yrs and even if he hasnt been in love with her for those years there still must have been a basic human bond of decency and completely disregarding her health at this moment would have seemed insensitive.
We have already seen an adi that took a strong stand against AC but the same cannot be done with malini because he has grown to care for her and specially not now when she is just recovering from a suicidal self harm injury. We may have varied opinions about how much of that suicide attempt was a guilt trapping move but in real life when a person self harms everyone around him/her is extra cautious not to push them into a state of stress and that i am speaking from personal experience.
As for how the tripathi ladies behaved today i think it was a quietly well done move by the makers. I think this turn of the characters was not to blindly glorify malini but to give a sudden jolt of realisation to imlie that the same people who she is prioritising above aditya and herself will absolutely abandon her at the drop of a hat if the situation demands it and she will have to stand up for herself and her own self respect as well as her relationship with her babusahib.
This just might work as a wake up call for imlie to get her priorities straight and stop being the naive self sacrificing girl that she is.
I also believe that aditya's inaction rn is solely on the consideration that his action will create more problems for imlie. Aditya now knows how his one move of dropping imlie off from her college created a huge scene at both the C house as well as the T house and he has seen the blatant accusations of his own family regarding imlie just now. If he at this point takes imlie back with him it will raise several questions on not just him but imlie as well and he may also have thought that imlie isnt in the need of immediate rescuing since she was already looking for a hostel accomodation.
This was just my opinion on today's episode and you are quite free to disagree.