Chalta hai: it goes, it will do. The Rekhta dictionary gives “it works! it meets the need.” For sab chalta hai, everything goes, it adds: “usu. uttered when something substandard or wrong is approved of.”
Jaane do: let it go. Rekhta gives “never mind, let go of it, let it be, overlook it, forgive (him/her).”
Mitti pao: just leave it. Rekhta refers the reader to the form mitti dalo. Mitti is earth.
Paryushana is an annual holy period of the Jains. On its last day, called Samvatsari by the Svetambaras and Kshamavani by the Digambaras, Jains ask forgiveness of all living beings, including friends and relatives. They say Micchami dukkadam, from the Prakrit miccha me dukkadam. It is sometimes rendered as “I am sorry, please forgive me.”
Bura na mano, Holi hai. Do not mind, it is Holi. The phrase belongs to Holi, the spring festival when people throw colors at each other.
Holi is also a day for ending quarrels. “Traditionally, on the day old rivalries are forgotten. Enemies declare truce and make peace,” one Hindu reference site writes. Not everyone accepts the license. The magazine Women’s Web has criticized the phrase as an excuse for harassment.
In the IPL season of 2023, Virat Kohli and Gautam Gambhir clashed on the field after a match in Lucknow. The league fined both of them. On March 29, 2024, Kohli’s Royal Challengers Bangalore played Gambhir’s Kolkata Knight Riders in Bengaluru. During a strategic time-out, the two men hugged in front of the cameras.
Kohli spoke about it afterward. “That means the masala is over for you guys. We are not kids anymore,” he said.
Section 23(2) of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, sets a duty for the court before it decides a divorce case. “Before proceeding to grant any relief under this Act, it shall be the duty of the court in the first instance, in every case where it is possible so to do consistently with the nature and circumstances of the case, to make every endeavour to bring about a reconciliation between the parties.”
A proviso exempts petitions on certain grounds of divorce.
In July 2020 Sachin Pilot rebelled against Ashok Gehlot, the Congress chief minister of Rajasthan. The party removed him as deputy chief minister. On August 10, 2020, Pilot met Rahul Gandhi in Delhi, and the month-long crisis ended. The meeting was described as a “frank, open and conclusive discussion.” Sonia Gandhi set up a three-member committee to look into his grievances.
In November 2022 Gehlot said: “The MLAs will never accept someone who has revolted and has been dubbed as a gaddar.” Gaddar means traitor. In 2023 Pilot sat on a fast in Jaipur against the inaction of his own party’s government. The party’s in-charge for Rajasthan called it “anti-party activity.”
Since May 3, 2018, Section 12A of the Commercial Courts Act, 2015, has required mediation before a commercial suit. A suit “which does not contemplate any urgent interim relief” “shall not be instituted unless the plaintiff exhausts the remedy of pre-institution mediation.”
In the film Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, the businessman Yash Raichand disowns his adopted son Rahul. Rahul leaves for London. Years later, Yash “publicly expresses regret for disowning Rahul and admits that, despite his strict nature, he always loved him,” in the words of Wikipedia’s plot summary. “The two reconcile in an emotional reunion.”
Samjhauta: compromise, understanding, pact, accord, agreement, in the Rekhta dictionary.
Nibhaana: to accommodate, adjust, adapt. Rekhta also gives “to maintain relations” and “to bear, suffer, endure.”
A Lok Adalat, a people’s court, settles disputes by compromise. Under the Legal Services Authorities Act of 1987, it arrives “at a compromise or settlement between the parties.” Its award “shall be deemed to be a decree of a Civil Court,” and “no appeal shall lie to any Court against the award.”
Since 2015 National Lok Adalats have been held across India on single days, each disposing of a large number of pending cases.