Instead, she experienced hardships. Yet at every twisted turn of adversity, someone stepped into her life to help her, comfort her, rescue her. Renee Riendeau dons spiritual symbols at a New Delhi temple.
Houseboats dot color on Dal Lake.
The adventure occurred ten years ago, but it remains a vivid memory and is the subject of a book she is writing. Within the first hours of her arrival in New Delhi, she had been abandoned by her cab driver at three o'clock in the morning and stranded in her hotel without contact from conference organizers. The retired Indian air force officers' telephone number had been listed in the conference literature, and though he had nothing to do with the event, he befriended the American and arranged her transportation into the remote Kashmir region, where the event was set to be staged. Renee arrived by train at Jammu at a time of international crisis. A plane carrying Pakistan's president had exploded and crashed.