As a former intelligence official, B. Raman regularly wrote about security, counter-terrorism and military issues regarding India and South Asia.
Raman was an IPS officer of the 1961 batch who served for a time in the Madhya Pradesh cadre before deputation to the Intelligence Bureau in New Delhi.
This, along with his vast knowledge and the ability to recall details of events even after the passage of decades made him a near ideal intelligence officer.
These rare qualities prompted Kao and many of his successors to entrust Raman with some of the very sensitive tasks that the R&AW undertook.
There he is credited for having established a back channel with Ayotollah Khameini and the leadership of the Islamic revolution that overthrew the Shah in 1978.