Career
He represented India at the Astrological Congress held at Cambridge, England, and the International Astrology Conference at New New York In 1968, the Akhila Bharateeya Samskrita Sammelana awarded him the Doctor of Literature degree, and in June 1976 the Kumaon University (Uttar Pradesh) awarded him the honorary Doctor of Letters degree. Raman was the first to deliver a lecture, Relevance of Astrology in Modern Times, in 1970 at the United Nations, New York, which evoked much interest in diplomatic circles.
He asserted that astrology was a science.
Raman founded the Indian Council Of Astrological Sciences in 1984 to regulate the study and practice of astrology in the country with chapters in Bangalore, Madras, Delhi, Kanpur, Trivandrum, Patna, and other cities. In October 1992, Raman, on a visit to the United States of America to deliver the keynote address at the First International Symposium on Vedic Astrology, held at Dominican College in San Rafael, California, mooted the idea of a national body to organise the study of Indian astrology in the States.
The American Council of Vedic Astrology was founded under Raman"s guidance by a group of Americans to help popularize the study of Indian astrology in United States of America. David Frawley, the president of the council from 1993-2003, mentions Raman for his inspiration and guidance. Mr. K. V. Mallikarjuna Rao, an eminent astrologer from Hyderabad, has translated many of Raman"s books into Telugu.