Bahukutumbi Raman, former head of the RAW passed away yesterday, after battling cancer. He was known for his candour and determined optimism.
He said in his memoir
"Throughout my 26 years in the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), India’s external intelligence agency, I was known as a man with a poker face.
As someone, who showed no emotions or passion on his face or in his words.
As someone, who led a robot-like existence, working from 8 in the morning till 9-30 in the night — seven days a week, 365 days in a year.
As someone, who took life in its stride."
In his talk at the Intelligence Summit in 2007, he struck a positive note while he said
"Nothing demoralises terrorists more in the long-term than the sight of a state, which keeps growing from strength to strength despite their worst acts of terrorism."
He defined International jihadi terrorism as revanchist in character, medieval in its objectives and modern in its methods of operation.
He added that it wants to avenge through mass killings the imaginary wrongs which, according to it, were done to the Muslims of the world over the ages by the rest of the world. It is not a clash between civilisations. It is a clash between savagery and civilisation.
He said in his memoir
"Throughout my 26 years in the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), India’s external intelligence agency, I was known as a man with a poker face.
As someone, who showed no emotions or passion on his face or in his words.
As someone, who led a robot-like existence, working from 8 in the morning till 9-30 in the night — seven days a week, 365 days in a year.
As someone, who took life in its stride."
In his talk at the Intelligence Summit in 2007, he struck a positive note while he said
"Nothing demoralises terrorists more in the long-term than the sight of a state, which keeps growing from strength to strength despite their worst acts of terrorism."
He defined International jihadi terrorism as revanchist in character, medieval in its objectives and modern in its methods of operation.
He added that it wants to avenge through mass killings the imaginary wrongs which, according to it, were done to the Muslims of the world over the ages by the rest of the world. It is not a clash between civilisations. It is a clash between savagery and civilisation.
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