Desi.Net — facts & figures
Short, sourced and current. Every number on this page comes live from the platform. Quote freely with attribution to Desi.Net.
What Desi.Net is
Desi.Net is a hyperlocal portal for the South-Asian (Desi) community worldwide: local news, events, movies, festivals & panchang, temples, verified businesses, radio and deep city guides — organised city by city, from Plano to London to Hyderabad. Listings are free, and business owners can claim their listing at no cost.
- 📍Founded2026, Plano, Texas, USA.
- 👤Founder & CEOSuresh — Plano, Texas. Building Desi.Net in public at my.desi.net.
- 🧭Editorial stanceDesi-locals-first; every city page serves the people who live there. Pan-South-Asian and politically neutral.
- ✉️Press & partnershipshello@desi.net
The numbers (live)
Cities live
Countries
Local business listings
Articles published
Real visitors yesterday: 722 (unique people, bot-filtered). Our public goal is 1,000,000 a day — progress is published openly on the home page.
The Desi Diaspora Dataset
Desi.Net publishes a free, openly licensed (CC BY 4.0) dataset of South-Asian population figures for 336 cities worldwide — every figure with the measuring agency, year and source link. The ten largest:
| # | City | Country | Desi population |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dubai | UAE | 1,500,000 |
| 2 | London | UK | 1,268,875 |
| 3 | Durban | South Africa | 834,860 |
| 4 | Toronto | Canada | 385,440 |
| 5 | New York City | USA | 382,232 |
| 6 | Singapore | Singapore | 362,274 |
| 7 | Brampton | Canada | 340,815 |
| 8 | Melbourne | Australia | 336,854 |
| 9 | Birmingham | UK | 309,853 |
| 10 | Sydney | Australia | 277,890 |
Editorial standards, in one paragraph
Every listing is verified before it carries a badge; every city goes live only after passing a substance gate; news is written from linked, checkable sources; and Desi.Net does not publish negative stories about named local businesses or private individuals. Corrections are actioned within minutes of being reported — tell us.
Boilerplate (copy-paste)
"Desi.Net is a worldwide hyperlocal portal for the South-Asian community — local news, events, festivals, temples and verified businesses, city by city. Founded in 2026 and headquartered in Plano, Texas, it is live in 263 cities across 30 countries."