"Being brown and single at 30, that’s a big no-no in the culture. What’s auntie-optimized isn't necessarily what the individual wants. Growing up in India and having a different value system VS some hybrid of Indian American - AND trying to figure out what your identity is doesn't necessarily overlap really well.”

Love is in the air - and for lots of South Asians, KJ Dhaliwal is a big part of that. KJ’s the Founder & President/ CEO of Dil Mil, the largest and fastest-growing matchmaking app for South Asians across the world. But disrupting a long-held model of match-making hasn’t made him friends among the aunties of the world, though that is starting to change as Dil Mil’s changing the culture for South Asians abroad and increasingly at home in the subcontinent. Dil Mil - which means “hearts meeting” in Hindi and Punjabi - has been able to thread the needle between matrimonial match-making and keeping it casual (we’re looking at you Shaadi + Tinder) - and was acquired in 2019, making KJ Chief Strategy Officer of Dating Group - allowing KJ to expand his vision of bringing cultures together - across cultures. An engineer from the South Asian Ameircan suburbs, this former engineer with mad dancing skills is somehow still single, and we promise his parents didn’t put us up to this one.

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