Indian matrimony in Australia

Matrimony built for Indians living in Australia: verified members, photos private until she approves, contact details never shown, and a real matchmaker when you want one. Women join free.

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Australia is an opening market.

What search looks like

Your search

Sample

Melbourne + 50 km

Indian

27–33

Vegetarian

Citizen or PR

Melbourne + 50 km

Indian

25–30

Vegetarian

Any status

Approved men who match your preferences. Newest first. Women whose preferences you match, and who chose to be found. Newest first.

Checked

Rohit, 29

Melbourne · Civil engineer

Indian
Vegetarian
Born here

Matches 7 of 7 of your preferences

Checked

Arjun, 30

Melbourne · GP

Indian
Hindi
Citizen

Matches 6 of 7 of your preferences

Checked

Jasdeep, 31

Melbourne · Electrician, own business

Indian
Vegetarian
Grew up here

Matches 5 of 7 of your preferences

Checked

Anoop, 29

Melbourne · Data analyst

Indian
Hindi
PR

Matches 7 of 7 of your preferences

Photos, private

Priya, 26

Melbourne · Physiotherapist

Indian
Vegetarian
Citizen

Matches 7 of 7 of your preferences

Photos, private

Divya, 27

Melbourne · Pharmacist

Indian
Hindi
Grew up here

Matches 6 of 7 of your preferences

Photos, private

Simran, 28

Melbourne · Primary teacher

Indian
Vegetarian
PR

Matches 5 of 7 of your preferences

Photos, private

Anjana, 29

Melbourne · Accountant

Indian
Hindi
Born here

Matches 7 of 7 of your preferences

A person read every profile here before it went live. You see his photos; he sees yours only after you approve him. Your phone and email are never shown to anyone. Photos appear when she approves your request. Every interest you send carries a note you wrote, so make it count. Her contact details are never shown; she shares them if she wants to.

Indian Australia

The community in Australia

A bridge over the Yarra with the Melbourne skyline behind — Pema Callan / Unsplash

India is the second-largest country of birth for overseas-born Australians, with more than 670,000 Indian-born residents at the 2021 census, and the Indian community is now one of the largest and fastest-growing in the country.

Rishta is built for the Indian community in Australia and New Zealand: the largest membership is Punjabi and Sikh, alongside growing Hindu, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Malayali, Muslim, Christian and Fiji Indian communities. Religion, community, mother tongue and family origin are four separate filters rather than one muddled one, “no bar” is always an option, and none of it is public: there are no profile pages anyone can browse from Google.

Built in, not promised

How Rishta works for Indians in Australia

Filters Indians here actually use: Religion and community · Mother tongue · Family origin (India, Fiji, Sri Lanka, elsewhere) · Diet · Citizen, PR or visa.

Read by a person, or invisible: Someone reads every profile before it goes live. Until it passes you cannot search and nobody can find you. No bots, no recycled photos, no profile made in two minutes.
An ID check if you want one: Photograph your passport or licence and then your face, and your profile carries a verified badge. It takes about a minute, it costs nothing, and it is entirely optional — we are not asking anyone to hand over a document just to look around.
No firehose: Every interest has to carry a note someone wrote by hand, at least forty characters of it, so nobody can bulk-send. There is no daily quota to spend and no button that fires a hundred taps at once.
Talk without giving out your number: Once you have accepted someone you can call them, voice, straight from the conversation. It goes between your two phones and never through us. Either of you can ask to turn cameras on mid-call, and the other has to agree first. You can switch calls off entirely and still write to people.
A matchmaker, never from your city: Australian members are looked after by matchmakers based in Auckland and in other Australian cities, never their own. She will not run into you at a wedding. Free for women; on the Vichola tier ($1200/month) she searches and approaches on a man’s behalf.

Questions Indians in Australia ask us

Is Rishta open in Australia?

Yes. Australia is one of our opening countries. Women can join free today; men join the waitlist and verify when introductions begin, and billing starts only then.

How is this different from Shaadi.com for Indians in Australia?

Three ways. A person reads every profile before it goes live. Women decide who can find them, and their photos are hidden until they approve someone. And no phone number or email is ever displayed on a profile, at any membership level. There is a longer comparison at /rishta-vs-shaadi.

Do women pay?

Not to search, be found, add photos, send interests, message or call. That is free for women permanently, and men pay for the same things. A matchmaker working on your behalf is a separate paid service for everyone, because that is a person’s time.

Can my parents be involved?

Yes. Family can pay for a son’s membership, can see a Family View page you choose the contents of, and can speak to your matchmaker with your consent. What they can’t do is create or run a profile for someone who hasn’t agreed to it.

Can I filter by community and mother tongue?

Yes. Mother tongue, religion, community (with “caste no bar” always available), diet, family origin and residency status are all filters, and any of them can be a must-have.

A note from the founder

I spent six months on a paid plan on the biggest matrimonial site in the world, searching honestly for someone to marry from here. I found roughly ten men for every woman, a paid plan that produced nothing, and a fake profile I could make in minutes.

Rishta is what I wished had existed: women free with nothing held back, photos hidden until she says yes, every profile read by a person before it goes live, every interest written by hand, no phone numbers on the page, and a matchmaker who is never from your own town. I built it because I am looking too.

Founder, Auckland · Read the research

Indian matrimony in Australia, done properly.

Women can join free today. Men verify when introductions begin.