EPFL to the Lakefront, Lausanne Gets a Desi Dating Night

EPFL is the reason Lausanne has a South Asian community. The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology is consistently ranked among the top ten universities in Europe, and its engineering, computer science, and life sciences programmes attract Indian students, postdocs, and faculty. The campus on the shores of Lake Geneva is stunning, and the research output is world class. The Indian researchers here are some of the best in their fields, and they can't find a date to save their lives.

The format from New York: real contestants go on live dates on stage while the room watches and reacts. Afterward, the whole crowd mingles. In Lausanne, this format is designed to concentrate the scattered desi community into one room for one night, creating connections that the apps and expat mixers never deliver.

The Indian community here is concentrated around EPFL's campus in Ecublens and in the affordable (relatively, this is Switzerland) apartments of Renens and Prilly. The university's Innovation Park adds startup founders and tech workers. The social scene revolves around lab group dinners, EPFL's Satellite bar, and occasional events organized by the Indian student association. For singles, that's not enough.

Geneva is forty minutes away by train, and the Lake Geneva arc from Lausanne to Geneva creates a corridor of international institutions, tech companies, and universities with a combined South Asian population worth gathering. A show in Lausanne pulls from this entire arc.

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