Suchi
What she wears is directly related to her marital status - which is why it's indicative of retrograde thinking. I'm not asking her to wear a Western office dress, nor am I expecting her to wear minis. But I do expect her to dress more simply, since she's no longer married. If she wishes, she could even wear a sari, but that ghunghat on her head??? If she's going to wear something like that which screams out her marital status, don't ask 'Why can't I have an identity of my own'. Anandi's problem is not anything else but that hood that she wears, which at this point is uncalled for, since she's no longer Jaggu's wife. If you want to argue that she is, since she's not divorced, go ahead, but that makes the context in which Anandi questions that Godman all the more inane.
All the dresses you mentioned - kilt in Scotland, and other items - are not tied to anybody's marital status. Yeah, if you are a man who wears a pink shirt and white socks, people can be forgiven for questioning your proclivities 😆 By no means do I think Anandi has to wear non-Indian clothes. But I do expect her to stop dressing like a beendni. Or, if she refuses, to stop pretending that she's not one.
You're obsessed about Gaga, when I didn't discuss them @ all, b'cos they were not the ones asking the Godman why can't a woman have an identity of her own. They have their own problems elsewhere, and frankly, I think Jagya is an idiot for deciding first, that he wants to be a doc, and second, he wants his spouse to be one as well, since the very nature of that job, unlike, say a Business Owner's job, is that you have to be available on call everytime you get an emergency call. Yeah, people in other professions too may sometimes attend work @ odd hours, but that's something more voluntary than in the medical field, where it's mandatory. If Jagya wasn't prepared to let his wife break out of their personal engagements, he should not have dated/cheated w/ a girl from that line of work. Nor should he have been in it himself.
If Anandi is so free from Jagya, why's she still w/ his family, instead of hers?? We're supposed to sympathize w/ that overgrown hag who used to torture her during her childhood, but is suddenly a complete saint for Anandi fangals - but honestly, using her as an example of what a woman can do is like saying that Manthara is an example of what a woman can achieve w/o being married. I can easily see the day Jagya will go back grovelling to Anandi, and these CVs, being the retards they are, will happily have Anandi go back into her mahaan mode and forgive him and get back into their marriage, and pick up from there, since a lot of TV writers have fewer qualms being sadistic these days.