'I would say, for any first generation immigrant the first emotion is of isolation. I was totally isolated, although language wasn't a barrier so I would hate to think what challenges other people might face with the language barrier.
Growing up in the northwestern Indian state of Rajasthan, she had been used to extreme heat, bustling streets and arid desert. Moving across the country, she then settled in Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta, known for its monsoon seasons and as the birthplace of modern Indian literary and artistic thought.
In Kolkata, she started a degree in Philosophy and further qualifications in Travel and Tourism. "I studied most of my life but at 23 I did my postgrad and just did a little job in a travel agency," Renuka told LancsLive when we visited her restaurant, A Se Anar. Soon after, Renuka met her then husband who was half-English and they decided to move to the UK, or more specifically, Blackpool. Talking about the adjustment to life in Britain, Renuka said: "It was huge.
"The regret of leaving your home country and the gratitude of a country accepting you, giving you livelihood, new friends and new family, just everything." "Even the protein, in Rajasthan because it's a desert area, there's more mutton and meat. Whereas, when you go to west Bengal, it's fish.
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