Roundglass India Center

Roundglass India Center Conducting cutting edge research on India and Indian Americans and educating our communities on issues impacting them.

The Roundglass India Center at Seattle University focuses on the study of contemporary India as well as the Indian American community. Our mission is to educate our communities on current issues impacting them and conduct cutting edge research on India and Indian Americans with the goal of advancing social, economic, and policy change in the United States and India.

India sends more students to the US than any other country, but in 2025, that began to change. With F-1 visa approvals d...
04/16/2026

India sends more students to the US than any other country, but in 2025, that began to change. With F-1 visa approvals down 44%, rejection rates at decade highs, and students increasingly choosing European universities, the path to a US education is no longer straightforward for Indian families. This carousel breaks down the numbers.

Sources: IIE Open Doors, Al Jazeera, Careers360, ICEF Monitor

04/13/2026

Most people hear India's foreign policy described as "no confrontation, no capitulation, yes to conversation" and assume it's diplomatic hedging. What that reading misses is that India is the only country in the world sharing borders with two nuclear-armed adversaries at the same time, Pakistan and China, which means every foreign policy call is made from inside a pressure cooker that most Western observers have never had to imagine. When you understand that context, the phrase stops sounding like caution and starts sounding like the most coherent survival strategy available to a country in that position. Watch the full episode to hear why the Trump administration's frustration with India's neutrality on Russia and Iran might be missing the most important piece of the picture.

04/10/2026

While gas prices in the US climbed 20%, India's stayed exactly where they were, and the reason goes deeper than subsidies. As one of our guests explained, India has spent years cultivating strategic autonomy across geopolitical lines that most countries wouldn't dare straddle, and that quiet, deliberate positioning is what's keeping fuel affordable for people who depend on it most.

Watch the full episode to understand how long it can last. Link in bio.

04/09/2026

7 in 10 Indian Americans said they're enthusiastic about Zohran Mamdani. He's a democratic socialist. The community has historically voted pretty centrist.

Milan Vaishnav from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on the latest episode of The Hyphen: Indian American Dialogues. Listen via the link in bio.

04/08/2026

Iran has been attacking ships in the Strait of Hormuz and yet every single Indian vessel has been sailing through completely untouched, almost as if there's an unspoken agreement no one is talking about on the news. The full story of how India managed to position itself this way, at a time when it is also one of Russia's biggest oil buyers, is something that takes a minute to wrap your head around. Watch the full episode to understand exactly what India pulled off here.

04/06/2026

Nine million Indians are living and working across the Gulf, and with tensions escalating, every single one of them is caught in a crisis they didn't choose. As one of our guests put it, a wholesale evacuation at this scale wouldn't just be moving people across a border; it would essentially mean evacuating a country, with consequences for families, employers, and the global economy alike.

Watch the full episode to understand what's at stake. Link in bio.

A war thousands of miles away is showing up at every Indian kitchen counter. From the Strait of Hormuz to Gulf remittanc...
04/04/2026

A war thousands of miles away is showing up at every Indian kitchen counter. From the Strait of Hormuz to Gulf remittances and a diplomatic tightrope, here's what the US-Iran conflict means for India, right now.

Sources: Reuters, Bloomberg, World Bank, NUS ISAS, Al Jazeera, CNBC, Financial Times, Indian Express

04/03/2026

9 million Indians are living and working across the Gulf right now, and for most of them, going home is not a realistic option in the middle of a war.

In this episode of The Hyphen, former Indian Ambassador Mohan Kumar breaks down what is actually at stake for India and the South Asian diaspora as the conflict in the Middle East continues to escalate. He talks about why India has chosen not to condemn Iran, why Indian ships are still being allowed through the Strait of Hormuz, and what India's three-part foreign policy doctrine means for every country watching from the sidelines.

This is the conversation the diaspora needs to be having right now.

Watch the full episode, link in bio.

04/02/2026

For this month, Seattle University will become a gathering place for some of the most meaningful conversations about India. Students, faculty, and community voices came together to explore everything from cultural heritage and wellness traditions to the ideas shaping modern India, and Roundglass is honored to be part of that dialogue.

These kinds of conversations remind us that understanding a culture more deeply is one of the most powerful things we can do for our own wellbeing and our sense of connection to the world.

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