Hormis Tharakan

P. K. Hormis Tharakan is a retired Indian Police Service officer of the Kerala cadre who served as the Secretary to [the Government of India|Secretary] of the Research and Analysis Wing, India's external intelligence agency, from 1 February 2005 to 31 January 2007. He is the former Director General of the Kerala Police.
Tharakan succeeded C. D. Sahay, a 1967 batch officer of the IPS' Karnataka cadre on 31 January 2005 to take over as the Secretary of R&AW. After his retirement from R&AW in 2007, Tharakan moved to Bangalore, Karnataka.
He was one of the advisors to the Governor of Karnataka, when the state was brought under the President's rule prior to Assembly elections in the state 2008 [Karnataka Legislative Assembly election|in 2008]. He was a member of the National [Security Council (India)|National Security Council] and was also the Chief Advisor of Strategic Affairs.
In 2014, he moved to Olavaip, his ancestral village in Kerala. Tharakan and his family are from Olavip. In 2016, Tharakan began to experiment with paddy-shrimp farming in Olavaip and by 2019, he was a full time paddy-shrimp farmer.