Senior analyst B Raman assesses Brajesh Mishra's role as India's first National Security Advisor, his part in the 1998 nuclear tests, the Kargil conflict and more. B rajesh Mishra, who was the National Security Adviser to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee [ between November 1998 and May 2004, passed away on Friday night. He was 84 and belonged to the 1951 batch of the Indian Foreign Service. He became famous in May 1970 when he was heading the Indian embassy in Beijing [ ] as the Charge d'Affaires. At the traditional May Day function at Beijing, Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong shook hands with Mishra, conveyed his greetings to our PM and President in that order and said, "We cannot go on quarrelling like this. We must become friends again. We will become friends again." Mishra sent a detailed report on it to the Ministry of External Affairs. A few days later, an account of Mao's friendly references to Ind...