{"id":55915,"date":"2023-06-12T15:00:14","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T06:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2023\/jun\/12\/a-new-start-after-60-living-moment-veena-torchia-vegan-cafe"},"modified":"2023-06-12T15:00:14","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T06:00:14","slug":"a-new-start-after-60-i-left-britain-and-opened-a-cafe-in-india-ive-never-been-happier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55915","title":{"rendered":"A new start after 60: I left Britain and opened a cafe in India. I\u2019ve never been happier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veena Torchia always felt like an outsider in London, but found peace when she and her husband moved to Rajasthan<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Veena Torchia was sitting in her garden in Pushkar in northern India, eating a very ripe mango. As she bit into it, she let the juice drip down her. If she had been in east London, where her family is based, she would have cut the mango into pieces on a nice plate. \u201cBut I wouldn\u2019t have tasted it,\u201d she says. Torchia\u2019s senses have sharpened since she turned 60 last year and moved to Pushkar with her husband to open a vegan cafe \u2013 the first, she claims, in the whole of the state of Rajasthan.<\/p>\n<p>It was in Pushkar that Torchia and Maurelio, who is from Calabria, Italy, became a couple 40 years ago, having travelled there as friends in their 20s. It was a very different India from the one Torchia knew from childhood visits to her father\u2019s family, when it was all \u201cbig hotels, air-conditioned buildings, jewellery shopping\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2023\/jun\/12\/a-new-start-after-60-living-moment-veena-torchia-vegan-cafe\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veena Torchia always felt like an outsider in London, but found peace when she and her husband moved to RajasthanEarlier this year, Veena Torchia was sitting in her garden in Pushkar in northern India, eating a very ripe mango. As she bit into it, she &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3789,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2923,346,62,78,744,1581,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breast-cancer","category-health","category-india","category-life-and-style","category-mental-health","category-relationships","category-south-and-central-asia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3789"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55916,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55915\/revisions\/55916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}