had left him with a sore throat after a warm conversation i had to bid him farewell with a cold handshake another gent stuck to cue questions hobbies pets siblings roommates indooroutdoor person a third was open about his divorce and his love for adventure i stuck to pizza and neutral subjects do you like movies and helped prevent conversations go off the railsthe vibe in the room however was overwhelmingly positive and most of those who took part stayed till the event ended i returned to work with a tissue paper with a cartoon of what looked like a young professor calculus of tintin fame tamil hindi and bengali film recommendations and a job offer no lessparticipants rated their dates on scorecards and took the cards home the organisers informed us that we would later receive smss with links to upload our scores lol would upload the scores and then share names and email ids with mutual yeses who could then go forward and fix dates of their ownvijay who has organised 97 speeddating events over the past year and a half in bengaluru delhi hyderabad gurugram gurgaon pune and kolkata says its safer than meeting someone after hooking up online through a dating app safety is always a concern he said and the participant bears the onus for this in speed dating too but you face no pressure to select or reject an individual vijay said you write no on the scorecard and you wont hear from the person again the idea is to get people off their phones and help them meet other people in a safe public environmentvijay says lol also organises niche events for divorcees and single parents and is planning to host a speeddating event for the lgbtqa community