The 1981-batch UP Cadre IAS officer Mr. Anil Swarup is a fighter par excellence. His career isan inspiration to most young officers. But, few know much about his personal life, especially that he was detected with Cancer during the Covid lockdown period. Even his fight against Cancer, euphemistically called Emperor of Maladies (after a book of the same name by US-based Onco-biologist and Pulitzer Prize winner Dr Siddharth Mukherjee), too contains many a life-lesson for everyone.
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We asked him about the symptoms he had, how it was detected, how reacted to the news,what was the course of treatment and what are the precautions he is taking. What are the precautions one needs to take to prevent it and what are the streps one takes to check its recurrence.
But, more important was the manner in which this incident impacted his life – was it permanently scarred or did it remain completely unchanged or was it impacted but he has learnt to life with it with slight lifestyle changes? Mr Swarup narrates how his wife supported him and emerged stronger than even her husband in fighting the malaise. “Family support is a precondition in fighting Cancer.
My wife was never, even for a moment, in doubt about me overcoming victorious”, he says. Chemotherapy impacts the body in myriad unimaginable ways, yet Mr Swarup never stopped writing his weekly columns for various media organisations or addressing younng aspirants or educationists through video conferences. Terming life after recovery as a bonus, Mr Swarup says he is enjoying every bit of it.
