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About GarbaMate

About GarbaMate

GarbaMate is a friendship and community product for Garba and Navratri. It helps adults discover Garba events, find people planning the same night and organise the evening together.

GarbaMate is for adults 18 and over. It is not a dating app and it is not an emergency service.

Friends gathered with a phone to plan a shared Garba evening, with festival lights and dancers behind them.
Illustration · not a photo of a real event

What is built

What GarbaMate does today

Features are labelled honestly: available now, partly available, or designed this way while the app is in pre-launch.

Discover Garba events

Available now

The public directory lists Garba and Navratri events across supported cities, compiled from public ticketing platforms with the organiser’s page as the source of truth.

Garba and Navratri guides

Available now

Evergreen guides cover Navratri dates and colours, Garba history, styles, music, outfits, etiquette and practical night planning.

Find a Garba partner

By design

GarbaMate is designed around consent-first connection requests tied to a specific event. Matching is not publicly open; the next season opens for Navratri 2027.

Garba Circles

By design

A Circle is a small group planning the same event with a host who approves every join request. Circles open with the next season — the model is described on the Circles page.

In-app chat

By design

Conversations open only after a request is accepted, and they stay inside GarbaMate. There is no contact-number exchange, WhatsApp unlock or paid reveal.

Safety tools

Partly available

Blocking and reporting are being completed before public registration. The safety page documents exactly what exists today and what is still in progress.

What we stand for

Friendship, privacy and honest information

Community, never dating

GarbaMate is built for friendship and shared celebration. There is no romantic framing, popularity ranking or matchmaking score anywhere in the product.

Privacy by default

Phone numbers are never shown on a profile and never shared with another member. There is no public people map and no background location tracking.

Consent at every step

A connection request or Circle join request is an invitation. Nothing opens in either direction until the recipient accepts.

Honest labels

Listings are described as compiled from public sources, generated artwork is labelled as illustration, and features are marked available, limited, planned or designed — never implied.

Event listings

Where the event information comes from

GarbaMate compiles event listings from public ticketing platforms and organiser pages. We aim to show what is published, not to invent a lineup or a price.

  • Dates, timings, venues and pass prices can change after a listing is published.
  • Confirmed line-ups are the organiser’s announcement, not a GarbaMate guarantee.
  • Expired events stay documented where they are historically useful, and purchase links are removed once a night has ended.
  • If a listing looks wrong, treat the organiser’s page as the source of truth while the next refresh corrects ours.

Contact and support

Reaching GarbaMate

Contact details are pending legal review

GarbaMate is in pre-launch. The operating entity, registered address, support and grievance contacts, and jurisdiction are being finalised with legal review, and will be published here before public registration opens. No contact details are invented or approximated in the meantime.

Join the first nights

Find your Garba people.

Join the early-access list for launch updates, or start with the events already listed near you.