Rabinder Singh, spy who defected to US, is no more: Double agent lived his last years as a remorseful recluse.

Rabinder Singh, an army Major who joined R&AW on deputation, rose through the ranks of India’s external spy agency before he was recruited by the CIA.

Rabinder Singh, a R&AW spy who fell for a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) trap and defected to Washington in 2004, is dead. The double agent passed away sometime in late 2016 in a road accident in Maryland, informed government sources said. Singh was living as a refugee in the US after CIA dumped him months after a dramatic extraction to the US through Kathmandu in May 2004. He was faced with financial problems since the CIA had stopped sending him pay cheques. Singh’s attempts to get a job at a US think tank run by a former CIA deputy director were stonewalled, pushing him into deep depression, claimed an officer requesting not to be identified. 

A remorseful Singh, burdened with the sin of betraying his country, spent almost 12 years as a recluse in New York, Maryland and neighboring Virginia, where his extended family lives.

In a battle, a soldier prepared to bring this wounded friend back from the field.

His Captain said,
“It is of No use! Your friend must be dead”.

But soldier still goes & brings back his friend.

Seeing the dead body, Captain says
“I told you it is of no worth. He’s dead”.

The soldier replies with moist eyes:
“No sir, it was really of worth…..
When I got to him, my friend saw me, smiled & said his last words: “I KNEW YOU WOULD COME”……

Moral: Rare, Precious, Trustworthy, True, Strong friends…. are always there when you need them the most….!!!

A woman was waiting at an airport one night, with several long hours before her flight. She hunted for a book in the airport shops, bought a bag of cookies and found a place to drop. She was engrossed in her book but happened to see, that the man sitting beside her, as bold as could be. . .grabbed a cookie or two from the bag in between, which she tried to ignore to avoid a scene. So she munched the cookies and watched the clock, as the gutsy cookie thief diminished her stock. She was getting more irritated as the minutes ticked by, thinking, “If I wasn’t so nice, I would blacken his eye.” With each cookie she took, he took one too, when only one was left; she wondered what he would do. With a smile on his face, and a nervous laugh, he took the last cookie and broke it in half. He offered her half, as he ate the other; she snatched it from him and thought… oooh, brother. This guy has some nerve and he’s also rude, why he didn’t even show any gratitude! 

She had never known when she had been so galled and sighed with relief when her flight was called. She gathered her belongings and headed to the gate, refusing to look back at the thieving ingrate. 

She boarded the plane, and sank in her seat, then she sought her book, which was almost complete. As she reached in her baggage, she gasped with surprise, there was her bag of cookies, in front of her eyes. 

If mine are here, she moaned in despair, the others were his, and he tried to share. Too late to apologize, she realized with grief, that she was the rude one, the ingrate, the thief. 

Moral - Sharing is a big thing. Keep your heart big enough to help others as well as share each small happiness with people. Once a word is spoken, an occasion is lost or the time has gone, you will never be able to recover it. So be happy and keep others happy.

A story tells that two friends were walking through the desert. During some point of the journey they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face. The one who got slapped was hurt, but without saying anything, wrote in the sand: "TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE." 

They kept on walking until they found an oasis, where they decided to take a bath. The one, who had been slapped, got stuck in the mire and started drowning, but the friend saved him. After the friend recovered from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone: "TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SAVED MY LIFE." 

The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend asked him, "After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now, you write on a stone, why?" 

The other friend replied: "When someone hurts us, we should write it down in sand where winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But, when someone does something good for us, we must engrave it in stone where no wind can ever erase it." 

LEARN TO WRITE YOUR HURTS IN THE SAND, AND TO CARVE YOUR BENEFITS IN STONE

Old Lady

An old lady had a hearing-aid fitted, hidden underneath her hair.

A week later she returned to the doctor for her check-up.

"It's wonderful - I can hear everything now," she reported very happily to the doctor.

"And is your family pleased too?" asked the doctor.

"Oh I haven't told them yet," said the old lady, "And I've changed my will twice already..."

The blind man and advertising

An old blind man was sitting on a busy street corner in the rush-hour begging for money. 

On a cardboard sign, next to an empty tin cup, he had written: 

'Blind - Please help'.

No-one was giving him any money.

A young advertising writer walked past and saw the blind man with his sign and empty cup, and also saw the many people passing by completely unmoved, let alone stopping to give money.

The advertising writer took a thick marker-pen from her pocket, turned the cardboard sheet back-to-front, and re-wrote the sign, then went on her way.

Immediately, people began putting money into the tin cup.

After a while, when the cup was overflowing, the blind man asked a stranger to tell him what the sign now said.

"It says," said the stranger, 

" 'It's a beautiful day. You can see it. I cannot.' "

How will you measure your life?

Dream as if you will live forever, live as if you’ll die today.

Our life can be as long as we can make it to be and as short as we can wish.

Life is all about developing various relationships with family, relatives, friends, fellows, work, money, objects, hobbies, and last but not least with yourself.

We all want to love, be loved, learn, teach, mentor, take on responsibilities, acquire various assets, contribute, create, get recognized, be powerful and off course be wealthy.

Now developing any relationship involves giving and taking and if the end result is to be happy we must give more and never expect to get something back. But that’s where unhappiness comes in because all we expect is something back from any/all relationship.

Life becomes complicated because of this give and take game whereas the goal is to make it simple. So you need a strategy to define your life to ensure enduring happiness in any relationship situation.

You are the director of your life but more than often life goes into an endless spiral of uncontrolled spin and there is very little you can do to control it. In such a situation all you have to do is to hold on to it till you get a hang of it. Much of our pain is self-chosen. Just remember there is always an end to any beginning and a new beginning after each end.

We all generally take risks not out of bravado but out of ignorance and blindness to probability and this happens with all of us in almost all life situations.

But that’s the way we all learn the lessons of life isn’t it.

Life is all about making mistakes and the more mistakes you make the more wise you become. Life teaches you by testing you before you learn your lesson, quite opposite to school where you are taught a lesson before test. The good thing about life is that it will give as many chances to anyone who is willing to get up and start again.

Even if you fail all the times, you can still take a new start. At the end of the day you will feel satisfied that you have taken all the chances you could and have played the card well.

It is also true that we cannot go back in life and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.

The idea is that later in your life if you have a chance to measure your life; you should be able to feel good about it on any scale.

To have a purpose in life can be a good beginning point to help you give direction to your life.

The idea of selection and pursuing a profession to your satisfaction can be one way to achieve the purpose of your life.

For a successful and satisfactory professional pursuit you must decide on the right mix of resources allocation to shape your life’s strategy. People who are driven to excel have this unconscious propensity to under invest in their families and over-invest in their careers—even though intimate and loving relationships with their families are the most powerful and enduring source of happiness.  

If your purpose in life is as simple as to be happy then all you have to do is simply be realistic and lower your expectations from the world around you.

There was and will never be something like a perfect life.

Another important fact of life is that it does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. The point to remember is the life goes on, with you, without you, so while you are there enjoy the ride.

If we try to group the world around us we can group them in two ways, one where we can do something to change the outcome, second where we cannot do anything to change the outcome. Most of us try to fiddle with the second and spend our energy to change something which cannot be changed.

It all depends which door you open and which door you leave closed. Take a close look because more than often the most important things in life are not things to even bother about.

More time in our life is spent in waiting for any action than the action itself, so why not learn to have fun while standing in a queue, that way we can have more happiness in our life.

Lastly do not worry about life; as we all are not going to survive it anyway.