A search, and who it finds
someone in Chicago who bakes, reads history, doesn’t drink, and wouldn’t mind that I travel a lot
Anjali, 31
Product manager · Austin
I moved to Austin for a job I thought I’d keep for two years and that was six years ago. Training for my third marathon, which mostly means I’m asleep by nine. Saturdays are for cooking, usually for more people than my kitchen holds. I’d like someone who eats last and stays to help clean up.
Ritu, 29
Product manager · Austin
I’m at the point where I want this to go somewhere, so I’ll be direct. Half marathons, never further. I stopped caring about my time around mile eight. The part I care about is the table afterward. Twelve people, no menu, everyone talking over each other. If that sounds like a lot, we probably won’t work.
Nikhil, 28
Policy analyst · Washington DC · Malayalam, English
My parents came from Thrissur in the eighties and I was born here, so my Malayalam is good enough for my grandmother and not much else. I work on housing policy. It’s slower than it sounds and I love it anyway. Vegetarian, which in my family was never a decision anyone made. I get along best with people who care about what they do.
Rahul, 31
Policy analyst · Washington DC · Malayalam, English
Vegetarian since birth, and that isn’t changing. Born in Kochi, raised in New Jersey, in DC since 2019, and I still read the Malayalam papers on Sunday for the letters page. Tell me who you’d drop anything for.
Meera, 29
Dentist · Minneapolis
I bought a house twenty minutes from my parents on purpose, and Sunday lunch there is the fixed point of my week. Tuesday nights I play league tennis with four women ten years older than me who are all better than I am. Tell me what your Sundays look like.
Shruti, 31
Dentist · Minneapolis
Four blocks from my sister and close enough to my parents for weeknight dinner. We still text instead of walking over. Doubles on Thursdays. Serious about this, but not in a hurry about it.
Karthik, 30
Software engineer · Raleigh · Tamil, English
Gym at six most mornings, because the rest of the day gets away from me. Chennai until I was nine, Raleigh since. I have been building an app for restaurant owners since 2023 and it has been two months from launch for most of that time. Ask me about it and then hold me to a date.
Vignesh, 28
Software engineer · Raleigh · Tamil, English
Backend work for a health company. Deadlifts Monday and Thursday. Sunday is Tamil films with my mother over video and she picks. I made a weather app that eleven people use, nine of them related to me. Be patient with all of that.
Sana, 32
Hospital administrator · Chicago
I run operations for a hospital system, which means I’m the first to know when something has gone wrong. Sundays I bake, usually with a book about the Mughals open on the counter getting flour on it. I don’t drink. I’ve never minded my own company, so travel for work as much as you need to.
Farah, 30
Hospital administrator · Chicago
Chicago born, Hyderabadi family, and I’ve stopped explaining which half is which. There’s always bread proving on the counter and a library book about Great Lakes shipwrecks next to it. I’ve never had a drink and have never once missed it. Go on your work trips.
Rohan, 29
Data scientist · San Diego
In the water before work most days. It sets the rest of it. I’m quieter on land, if that matters to you.
Neel, 32
Data scientist · San Diego
Dawn patrol four mornings a week, badly. Come out once and be honest if you hate it.
Aditya, 31
Financial analyst · Houston · Hindi, English
My mother still corrects my Hindi and my English, in that order. Saturday mornings I coach a middle-school robotics team that I started as a favor and now plan my weekends around, and Sundays belong to whatever India is playing. I want a house that’s full most weekends.
Manav, 29
Financial analyst · Houston · Hindi, English
Born in Houston to parents from Lucknow and I’ve never lived anywhere else, which people my age find strange. I umpire the Sunday league now that I’m too slow to field, and I take it more seriously than the players do. Wednesday evenings are two nephews, four of their friends, and math I have to look up before they arrive. I want children eventually and I’d rather say so now than in six months.
Ishani, 33
Architect · Denver
I design schools, which is the only kind of building I have ever wanted to work on. Most weekends I’m somewhere above treeline with a pocket sketchbook that never leaves my pack. I know what I want and I’m past pretending otherwise.
Tara, 30
Architect · Denver
Denver for six years, Chicago before that, Ahmedabad before that. Fourteeners in summer. In winter I draw doors, and there are about six hundred of them in a folder with no plan for any of them. I want someone who makes things too, whatever the thing is.
Vikram, 30
Research scientist · Boston
I work on protein design at a small company and I’ll talk about it longer than you want. Tabla since I was seven, and my teacher still writes the same three corrections in the margin of my book. Anyone who comes over gets fed whether they asked or not. Come hungry and be willing to disagree with me.
Arun, 33
Research scientist · Boston
Chennai to Boston for a PhD in 2016 and I stayed for the work. I started tabla at thirty and it shows, and on Sundays I cook for whoever answers my messages, usually the same six. I’m here for something serious. That’s not hard for me to say.
Divya, 28
CPA · Edison, New Jersey
January through April belongs to my clients and I disappear a bit. The rest of the year my father is teaching me the Kannada I never learned properly, and I’d like to get good at it while he’s still the one teaching me.
Sneha, 30
CPA · Edison, New Jersey
Edison my whole life, which means half of you already know my family. Busy season takes January to April, and then I get my evenings back, which right now go to Kannada lessons over video with a teacher in Mysore who never rushes me. I have endless patience for anyone still learning something.
Arjun, 30
Engineer · Fremont, California · Hindi, English
Fremont mein hi bada hua, parents Delhi se. Ghar pe Hindi, office mein English, aur dono ke beech mein main. Har Saturday nayi trail, kitni bhi door ho. Raat ka khaana main hi banata hoon, dal chawal se biryani tak. Aapko kya pasand hai, wo sunna hai.
Sameer, 31
Engineer · Fremont, California · Hindi, English
Chandigarh se aaya tha 2015 mein, ab yahin ghar lagta hai. Sunday subah nikal jaata hoon, shaam tak wapas. Kitchen mera hai, har roz. Mujhe koi aisa chahiye jo apne logon ke liye time nikalta ho.
Anjali, 31
Product manager · Austin
I moved to Austin for a job I thought I’d keep for two years and that was six years ago. Training for my third marathon, which mostly means I’m asleep by nine. Saturdays are for cooking, usually for more people than my kitchen holds. I’d like someone who eats last and stays to help clean up.
One example: Austin, product manager, runs marathons, cooks for a crowd. Two results: Anjali, 31. Product manager · Austin. I moved to Austin for a job I thought I’d keep for two years and that was six years ago. Training for my third marathon, which mostly means I’m asleep by nine. Saturdays are for cooking, usually for more people than my kitchen holds. I’d like someone who eats last and stays to help clean up. Ritu, 29. Product manager · Austin. I’m at the point where I want this to go somewhere, so I’ll be direct. Half marathons, never further. I stopped caring about my time around mile eight. The part I care about is the table afterward. Twelve people, no menu, everyone talking over each other. If that sounds like a lot, we probably won’t work.