Thanks Uma-di! You're a star! :D
I think I get the ethos of this serial. It's simple (read, way to simplistic) : women are smart, men are mostly idiots!!
The only kind of "smart" men are Suryakamal and Bauji but they are too nice (read, lack backbone) and so cannot fight to be treated well. Thank god for the women in their lives!
Saroj is stupid, I agree, but she's also one cunning woman! HATE her!!
Feel so sorry for Radhika.. but I'm sure she'll beat Saroj at her own game (like Preeti's doing with Amma and Ritu). She won't give up so easily!! So, people who are reading this, don't feel too sorry for her. She's too strong for that (umm, I hope!)
I wonder why most serials (maybe unconsciously) have this men-women divide, and insist upon it. Maybe the viewership is predominantly female.. but still, it is highly unrealistic!! Or is it? ;P lol