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B. Raman


Born
India
Died
June 16, 2013


Bahukutumbi Raman(B. Raman) was an Additional Secretary of the Cabinet Secretariat of the Government of India and one-time head of the counter-terrorism division of India's external intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW). Until his death in 2013, he was the director of the Institute for Topical Studies, Chennai.



Having been one of the few surviving officers who were a witness to the creation of R&AW during 1968 by RN Kao, his analysis on Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma and China have been an asset to the Intelligence community.

As a former intelligence official, B Raman regularly wrote about security, counter-terrorism and military issues regarding India and South Asia. He was a firm believer of Gandhi-Nehru rule, and had often pro
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“There is less chance of people taking to violence if they are able to let out steam. Generally, only people who keep boiling inside take to violence.”
B. Raman, The Kaoboys of R&AW: Down Memory Lane

“In India, one tends to think that Pakistan’s use of terrorism against India started in 1989 in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). It is not so. It started in 1956 in Nagaland. The ISI trained the followers of Phizo, the Naga hostile leader, in training camps set up in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of East Pakistan. It also provided them with safe sanctuaries in the CHT from which they could operate in the Indian territory through northern Myanmar.”
B. Raman, The Kaoboys of R&AW: Down Memory Lane