Arts Thread

In the mid-20th Century, my young grandparents moved from their Gujarati villages, on the West Indian coast, travelling to England in search of stability. They settled in respective cities, building up new lives and families, yet always maintaining a strong connection and yearning for their original homeland. Generations later amongst their many grandchildren including myself, that connection is almost fully severed. I have never visited India, never seen my ancestral village, never fully learnt the Gujarati language, never entirely known what brought me here and where I came from. This project questions what I actually know about my history and heritage. Who were my grandparents before they moved, where specifically did they come from, and what is this gap in the story of my ancestry?