Hormis Tharakan
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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.[4] After his retirement from R&AW in 2007, Tharakan moved to Bangalore, Karnataka.[2]
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 in 2008.[1] He was a member of the National Security Council and was also the Chief Advisor of Strategic Affairs.[5][6]
In 2014, he moved to Olavaip, his ancestral village in Kerala.[2] Tharakan and his family are from Olavip.[2] In 2016, Tharakan began to experiment with paddy-shrimp farming in Olavaip and by 2019, he was a full time paddy-shrimp farmer.[2]
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