About · Since 2019

We came for a Friday.
We stayed for the chapter.

A small team across four cities, hosting in fourteen. We believe rooms beat feeds, and curation beats algorithms.

A manifesto · In one line

The internet gave us reach.
We’re trying to give it back its warmth.

Let’s Socialise started as one dinner, in one city, with twelve strangers Ravinder wanted to introduce to each other. The format hasn’t changed much since — a host who knows your name, a venue that gets out of the way, and a table that’s been balanced for the people on it.

Our team is twelve people across four cities. Hosts, curators, the person who reads every application, and the engineer who built the app that runs in your pocket. We’re hiring quietly. Write if it’s interesting.

Our story · so far

Seven years. Two hundred and forty dinners.

A small team, a slow build, and a thesis we’ve stuck to since the first table.

2019
The first dinner

Twelve strangers, one long table at Aamantran, Calcutta. The format hasn’t changed since.

2020
Across India

Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, and Hyderabad start running monthly chapters with member-hosts.

2022
The first Fest

120 guests on a Goa beach, structured for tables of 6, mixed every hour. We’ve run two Fests a year since.

2024
SELECT launches

A small membership for guests we kept asking back. Capped at 80 nationally, never marketed.

2026
14 cities, 4 countries

Dubai, London, Singapore, Bangkok join the rotation. 12,400 members reviewed. Still one application at a time.

Founder · 2019
Meet the founder

Ravinder Singh

Author·Creator·Entrepreneur

Ravinder Singh is a bestselling author. He has 11 books in his name and his collective works have sold more than 3.5 million copies till date. He is an MBA from the renowned Indian School of Business. His eight-year-long IT career came to a happy ending at Microsoft where he worked as a Senior Program Manager.

He also runs a publishing venture called Black Ink where he publishes debut authors. Several of the books written and published by Ravinder have made it to Bollywood.

Let’s Socialise is Ravinder’s latest venture where he is enabling thousands of people to socialise with each other, in a fun-filled safe space.

Authorship
11
Books publishedSpanning fiction, memoir, and a writing handbook for debut authors.
Reach
3.5M+
Copies sold worldwideTranslated into 14 languages, with multiple titles optioned for Bollywood.
Community
7M+
Followers across socialsYouTube, Instagram, X, LinkedIn & Facebook — most of them readers first.
Founder’s note

“I was in chapters full of brilliant people who’d never spoken to each other. Most of social media is loud. The world needed something quieter — and a lot warmer.”

Ravinder Singh · Founder & chief host

The team

Twelve people. One thesis.

Hosts, curators, the person who reads every application, the engineer who built the app in your pocket. We’re a small bench — and that’s the point.

PG

Priya Ghosh

Head of curation

Reads every application. Has placed twelve thousand strangers at tables since 2020.

VK

Vikram Kapur

Mumbai lead host

Eighty chapters and counting. The one who remembers your dietary preference six months later.

NM

Niharika Menon

Delhi · NCR

Runs the Hauz Khas and Khan Market chapters. Quiet host, opinionated on whisky.

AS

Aryan Sharma

Bengaluru lead host

Built the post-dinner notes system. Believes the second chapter beats the first, every time.

RJ

Rhea John

SELECT & international

Runs Dubai and London. Curates the quarterly dinners that members fly in for.

DM

Dev Malhotra

Engineering

Built the app and the systems that let twelve people host in fourteen cities without dropping a single seat.

SK

Sana Kothari

Brand & story

Writes the email you actually read. Photographs the chapters that end up in the year’s journal.

+5

Five more

Hosts across cities

Hyderabad, Pune, Chennai, Singapore, Bangkok. Same thesis. Different accents at the table.

As written about in
240+
Gatherings hosted
14
Cities, 4 countries
12,400+
Members reviewed
92%
Return rate after first Chapter
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Worth a Friday.

The shortest path to a table is a three-minute application. We’ll take it from there.

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