Skep, you raised some good points. I too liked Ganga keeping the fast not for a guy but for her beliefs.
The saree giving by Jagya was a little bit much in my opinion as I would have preferred it after Jagya admits his feelings and breaks up with Sanchi. But Ganga looked really pretty. Also I was happy to see the pallu gone. Hopefully, they will show Ganga changing her dress once she starts the nursing course. Now some will argue that what is wrong with her Rajasthani dress. There is nothing wrong, but people usually evolve when they move to a new environment. Changing the dress is part of that evolvement. It doesn't mean that she stops wearing her ghagras. But she can also be shown to wear some other dresses too - like sarees (simple ones) or salwaar kameez or churidaars.
That is one of the problems in how they are depicting Anandi. She has moved to a bigger town and nobody in her family wears pallus. Yet she is constantly wearing one. Why can't they show her in a different dress once in a while. That doesn't take anything from her identity. If anything, tolerating Ira's regressive behavior is making her a different person than she has been shown so far.
Now she is shown trying to please Ira so much that she is letting her insult her mother Sumitra. Granted Sumitra is no goody two shoes, but for Anandi she is a mother figure who does love her a lot. Why would you let your mother in law berate your mother for something that is not her fault anyway.