![]() Born in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, he earned his Master's Degree in Political Science from Allahabad University in 1978 where he was also awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal for being the Best All Round Student. As a strategic thinker and an innovative leader, he won several awards and nomĭuring his career spanning 38 years, Anil Swarup attempted to 'make it happen'. As a civil servant, he held various assignments within both the State (Uttar Pradesh) and Central Government. He won the Director's Gold Medal for the best Officer Trainee at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration amongst the officers of his batch. Before joining the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in 1981 he served the Indian Police Service for a year. ![]() ![]() During his career spanning 38 years, Anil Swarup attempted to 'make it happen'. ![]()
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![]() But as the virus spreads and hysteria grips everyone around them, they realise their lives are about to change forever. ![]() The wild and mysterious countryside is the only world they have ever known. They have grown up in the village, cared for by their meek father and bullied by their grandmother with her enormous ear trumpet. A peculiar illness is spreading through the town and picking off its victims one by one.įrom the Willoweed cottage, sisters Emma and Hattie watch the tragedy unfold. But the flood is only the beginning of their troubles.Īll of a sudden the miller goes mad and drowns himself. ![]() The family wakes to find ducks sailing around the drawing room and dead peacocks bobbing in the garden. Strange things are afoot in the English village where the Willoweed family live. ![]() That evening the baker's wife ran down the village street in a tattered pink nightgown. 'Quite simply, Comyns writes like no one else.' – Maggie O'Farrell, author of Hamnet ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments The happy prince tale![]() ![]() There is the indulgence of the writer starving in his garret, and accusations of excess sentimentality certainly have a foundation when we reach the conclusion, but you’d have to have a lead heart to completely ignore Wilde’s message. It remains distressingly relevant a century after Wilde’s death. ![]() ![]() Wilde was an astute social commentator with a propensity to cut through self-serving hypocrisy, and as a condemnation of what we’re prepared to sanction as long as we’re prosperous The Happy Prince is among his strongest works. ![]() Now high above the city he has a full view of the misery and deprivation he was spared when alive. In the manner of fairy tales, this statue has a sentience and embodies the spirit of the boy it represents, having memories of the happy closeted days in a beautiful palace before he died young. Those never read the original as a child may be surprised to learn the happy prince is a statue, very finely adorned and upon a pedestal both literally and figuratively, universally admired and held up as an example by mothers to misbehaving children. While many of the others fell from fashionable grace over the years, its reputation has been sustained, and as lovingly detailed by Russell it’s a definite crowd pleaser. Craig Russell turned his attention to Wilde’s best known and most loved of them, The Happy Prince. It wasn’t until this fifth book adapting Oscar Wilde’s fairy tales, a full twenty years after the first, that P. ![]() |