“My father never spoke to us about Guyana, the country of his birth, when we were growing up because he believed that his history had no value to his children.” That is how Maria del Pilar Kaladeen opens our latest Insights long read which looks at how the stories of Indian indentured labourers from the Caribbean were largely forgotten in the overall Windrush narrative.

They were a minority within a minority and subsequent generations were left with little information about their pasts – about who they were. That silence would have consequences and was “like a bullet that ricocheted down generations”, Kaladeen writes. The information vacuum also helped Britain ‘forget’ its part in the creation and maintenance of the system of indenture.

The story is part of our Windrush 75 series that celebrates the “Windrush generation” and explores the pressing injustices that still face these people and their descendants.

Elsewhere, the latest story in our Plant Curious series reveals that we have something quite surprising in common with plants, fungi and even some bacteria – they all have a body clock and have the potential to get jet lag. And our experts bring you the latest on the Ukraine conflict where the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam is pointing to a new phase in the war.

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