BanyanWay: Media Highlights
BanyanWay Takes a Modern Approach to Matchmaking for Indian Singles in the U.S.
Banyanway is a modern matchmaking platform for Indian American singles. The platform offers singles a personalized matchmaking service that offers all the customization and guidance they desire, with options to get parents and other family members involved.
Dating app burnout and COVID-19 make Indian matchmaking cool again
BanyanWay, which offers a mobile app for singles and a corresponding website for families, is intended to combine a family-oriented process and the independence young Americans crave.
Bridging traditional matchmaking and modern dating: Banyan Way
If you ask most Indians or Indian Americans, they love three things: cricket, cinema and politics. A lot of dinner party conversations will revolve around these topics in some way shape or form…
BanyanWay hosts app launch & first anniversary party
First generation Indian Americans in the US struggle to find the proper balance of involvement with their children’s lives around dating and marriage,” said Basker.
BanyanWay hosts Indian singles event in Atlanta
BanyanWay hosted another Hello! Event for Indian Singles on April 21 2018, at Breakout Games in Buckhead,Atlanta. The escape room environment “made it easy to reach out and talk to people” and the various icebreaker activities were “set up to facilitate interaction”. Those were some of the comments made by singles who attended the event.
BanyanWay hosts meet-and-greet for parents of Indian-American singles
First generation Indian immigrants in the US struggle to find the proper balance of involvement with their children’s lives around dating and marriage,” said Aparna Basker, CEO and founder of BanyanWay. “This generation of parents is caught between the traditional methods of arranged marriages and the modern method of dating apps. BanyanWay strives to bridge that gap and is an effort to help those of Indian origin find a life partner.”
Chai & Just Chat session discusses interpersonal relationships
The topic for the October 6th Chai & Just Chat session was “Interpersonal Relationships: Cultural Conditioning, Challenging, Conflicting and Cooperating”. This session was held in collaboration with Banyan way.
BanyanWay’s Virtual Summer Social helps forge relationships while social distancing
The folks at BanyanWay, who believe social distancing does not have to mean social disconnecting, presented their first Virtual Summer Social for Indian Singles on Saturday, August 1, with the goal of helping Indian singles aged 23-45, meet, mingle, and find a potential partner.
BanyanWay’s first anniversary and app party
Most Indians are passionate about four things: cricket, cinema, religion, and politics. Dinner party conversations revolve around these topics. If you ask most Americans about Indians, they’ll probably think of arranged marriages, Bollywood dancing, and Slumdog Millionaire—but arranged marriages are not for all Indian-Americans.
BanyanWay’s Milan for Parents
“First generation Indian immigrants in the U.S. struggle to find the proper balance of involvement with their children’s lives around dating and marriage,” said Aparna Basker, CEO and founder of BanyanWay. “This generation of parents is caught between the traditional methods of arranged marriages and the modern method of dating apps. BanyanWay strives to bridge that gap and is an effort to help those of Indian origin find a life partner.”
Love and Dating in The Age of Covid
For some years now, the convenience of social media apps has meant that many singles have been able to seek comfort in finding a partner simply by swiping right, thanks to apps like Dil Mil, Tinder, Hinge, Bumble, and Atlanta’s own BanyanWay. But once the pandemic shut down regular dating options, most people had to get creative with finding love.