Am sorry to be a party pooper but can we make this discussion a little more nuanced? We must distinguish between rogue elements that bash characters to provoke angry reactions and those who would like to objectively analyse the script and the characters.
The plain and simple truth is there is no Anandi. She is a creation of a writer's pen. And while the pen has created a lovely character -- a principled, intelligent young woman -- that we all admire, the pen also sometimes makes A behave in a way that foxes the thinking mind. A thread maker recently explained the rationale for A's FBs. Fair enough. But it seems odd that she's stopped getting the dreams where J was being nasty to her and Shiv so supportive. Surely if that had been interspersed with the nice J FBs, then the process of reasoning within A would have been clearer to the viewers.
A herself told DS that if she were to weigh the J memories, the good and the bad would be equal. Yet the bad memories have mysteriously vanished from her sub-conscious mind.
Some of us have discussedall all this rationally.Some people also feel that BV writers flip flop on the central message and they have allowed adultery to get mixed up with child marriage. A lot of the angst here is because J was awful to A. If he had been good then how would the anti-BV message emerge? Is Bal Vivah intrinsically wrong or is it wrong because the boy has done injustice to the girl?
So let us not say that there should be no analysis of A at all. And that any questioning amounts to A-bashing. It is important to remember that the analysis is of the script, the criticism if there is any, is of the writers.Because there is no real Anandi. And if we say that she is always right, then we are saying that the writer is always right and is in fact infallible.