Father Paul wrote:Yes the Father Paul I mean Father Brown stories are among the best detective stories ever written. I sometimes wonder whether the tamil fictional detective Digambara Swamiyar was based on Father Brown. Have you read the detective stories featuring Shankar Lal, Digambara Swamiyar, Thupparium Sambu, etc?

Meanwhile do take a look at this:

http://www.thrillingdetective.com/trivia/triv188.html

Tracy Whitney wrote:Trashy magazine and detective stories. Hmm that explains the screwed up mind now.

And lol. What's a thambini if she can't name drop.

bw wrote:moving it here since i don't want to corrupt the thread on MH370...

Father Paul wrote:Yes the Father Paul I mean Father Brown stories are among the best detective stories ever written. I sometimes wonder whether the tamil fictional detective Digambara Swamiyar was based on Father Brown. Have you read the detective stories featuring Shankar Lal, Digambara Swamiyar, Thupparium Sambu, etc?

Meanwhile do take a look at this:

http://www.thrillingdetective.com/trivia/triv188.html

i have read some of them in bits and pieces. since i didn't study tamil at school, i used to read a lot of trashy magazines and detective stories to improve my tamil reading. i tried to read "ponniyin selvan" and other classics too at my mother's insistence but never got too far with them.

i plan to watch the bbc series on father brown. shall check out your link - v.gangadhar is related to me in some way, i think.

Rashmun wrote:
I really wanted to read the Sambu, Shankar Lal and Digambara Swamiyar stories. If you come across any English translation of these stories please let me know. Meanwhile, These look very promising:

http://www.amazon.com/Blaft-Anthology-Tamil-Fiction-Vol-II/dp/9380636008/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1394884062&sr=8-3&keywords=Tamil+pulp

http://www.amazon.com/Blaft-Anthology-Tamil-Pulp-Fiction-ebook/dp/B008GWE5N2/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1394884062&sr=8-2&keywords=Tamil+pulp

But I had glimpsed through Volume 1 some years ago and from what I remember there was only one Shankar Lal story in it and no Sambu or Digambara Swamiyar story.

bw wrote:moving it here since i don't want to corrupt the thread on MH370...

Father Paul wrote:Yes the Father Paul I mean Father Brown stories are among the best detective stories ever written. I sometimes wonder whether the tamil fictional detective Digambara Swamiyar was based on Father Brown. Have you read the detective stories featuring Shankar Lal, Digambara Swamiyar, Thupparium Sambu, etc?

Meanwhile do take a look at this:

http://www.thrillingdetective.com/trivia/triv188.html

i have read some of them in bits and pieces. since i didn't study tamil at school, i used to read a lot of trashy magazines and detective stories to improve my tamil reading. i tried to read "ponniyin selvan" and other classics too at my mother's insistence but never got too far with them.

i plan to watch the bbc series on father brown. shall check out your link - v.gangadhar is related to me in some way, i think.

pravalika nanda wrote:

bw wrote:moving it here since i don't want to corrupt the thread on MH370...

Father Paul wrote:Yes the Father Paul I mean Father Brown stories are among the best detective stories ever written. I sometimes wonder whether the tamil fictional detective Digambara Swamiyar was based on Father Brown. Have you read the detective stories featuring Shankar Lal, Digambara Swamiyar, Thupparium Sambu, etc?

Meanwhile do take a look at this:

http://www.thrillingdetective.com/trivia/triv188.html

i have read some of them in bits and pieces. since i didn't study tamil at school, i used to read a lot of trashy magazines and detective stories to improve my tamil reading. i tried to read "ponniyin selvan" and other classics too at my mother's insistence but never got too far with them.

i plan to watch the bbc series on father brown. shall check out your link - v.gangadhar is related to me in some way, i think.

but who do you think is a better detective, father brown or Sherlock holmes?

I remember reading just a couple of father brown stories and the writing was good and interesting but now I feel like Sherlock holmes is more magnetic, probably cuz of the show. Strangely I've never read Doyle. I actually thought he was the writer of the FB series as well.

pravalika nanda wrote:
but who do you think is a better detective, father brown or Sherlock holmes?

Rashmun wrote:

pravalika nanda wrote:

bw wrote:moving it here since i don't want to corrupt the thread on MH370...

Father Paul wrote:Yes the Father Paul I mean Father Brown stories are among the best detective stories ever written. I sometimes wonder whether the tamil fictional detective Digambara Swamiyar was based on Father Brown. Have you read the detective stories featuring Shankar Lal, Digambara Swamiyar, Thupparium Sambu, etc?

Meanwhile do take a look at this:

http://www.thrillingdetective.com/trivia/triv188.html

i have read some of them in bits and pieces. since i didn't study tamil at school, i used to read a lot of trashy magazines and detective stories to improve my tamil reading. i tried to read "ponniyin selvan" and other classics too at my mother's insistence but never got too far with them.

i plan to watch the bbc series on father brown. shall check out your link - v.gangadhar is related to me in some way, i think.

but who do you think is a better detective, father brown or Sherlock holmes?

I remember reading just a couple of father brown stories and the writing was good and interesting but now I feel like Sherlock holmes is more magnetic, probably cuz of the show. Strangely I've never read Doyle. I actually thought he was the writer of the FB series as well.

Sherlock Holmes is undoubtedly better.

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:i found thuppariyum sambu to be an idiotic comic strip.

pravalika nanda wrote:

Rashmun wrote:

pravalika nanda wrote:

bw wrote:moving it here since i don't want to corrupt the thread on MH370...

Father Paul wrote:Yes the Father Paul I mean Father Brown stories are among the best detective stories ever written. I sometimes wonder whether the tamil fictional detective Digambara Swamiyar was based on Father Brown. Have you read the detective stories featuring Shankar Lal, Digambara Swamiyar, Thupparium Sambu, etc?

Meanwhile do take a look at this:

http://www.thrillingdetective.com/trivia/triv188.html

i have read some of them in bits and pieces. since i didn't study tamil at school, i used to read a lot of trashy magazines and detective stories to improve my tamil reading. i tried to read "ponniyin selvan" and other classics too at my mother's insistence but never got too far with them.

i plan to watch the bbc series on father brown. shall check out your link - v.gangadhar is related to me in some way, i think.

but who do you think is a better detective, father brown or Sherlock holmes?

I remember reading just a couple of father brown stories and the writing was good and interesting but now I feel like Sherlock holmes is more magnetic, probably cuz of the show. Strangely I've never read Doyle. I actually thought he was the writer of the FB series as well.

Sherlock Holmes is undoubtedly better.

you mean the style of writing, the plots, or just the character?

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:

pravalika nanda wrote:
but who do you think is a better detective, father brown or Sherlock holmes?

are you kidding me?! SH is the alpha of detectives

Rashmun wrote:

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:i found thuppariyum sambu to be an idiotic comic strip.

Isn't he in the peter sellers inspector clousseou mould? I would love to read more about him.

Rashmun wrote:

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:

pravalika nanda wrote:
but who do you think is a better detective, father brown or Sherlock holmes?

are you kidding me?! SH is the alpha of detectives

Max, what about Mycroft Holmes?

Rashmun wrote:

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:

pravalika nanda wrote:
but who do you think is a better detective, father brown or Sherlock holmes?

are you kidding me?! SH is the alpha of detectives

Max, what about Mycroft Holmes?

Rashmun wrote:

bw wrote:moving it here since i don't want to corrupt the thread on MH370...

Father Paul wrote:Yes the Father Paul I mean Father Brown stories are among the best detective stories ever written. I sometimes wonder whether the tamil fictional detective Digambara Swamiyar was based on Father Brown. Have you read the detective stories featuring Shankar Lal, Digambara Swamiyar, Thupparium Sambu, etc?

Meanwhile do take a look at this:

http://www.thrillingdetective.com/trivia/triv188.html

i have read some of them in bits and pieces. since i didn't study tamil at school, i used to read a lot of trashy magazines and detective stories to improve my tamil reading. i tried to read "ponniyin selvan" and other classics too at my mother's insistence but never got too far with them.

i plan to watch the bbc series on father brown. shall check out your link - v.gangadhar is related to me in some way, i think.

I really wanted to read the Sambu, Shankar Lal and Digambara Swamiyar stories. If you come across any English translation of these stories please let me know. Meanwhile, These look very promising:

http://www.amazon.com/Blaft-Anthology-Tamil-Fiction-Vol-II/dp/9380636008/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1394884062&sr=8-3&keywords=Tamil+pulp

http://www.amazon.com/Blaft-Anthology-Tamil-Pulp-Fiction-ebook/dp/B008GWE5N2/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1394884062&sr=8-2&keywords=Tamil+pulp

But I had glimpsed through Volume 1 some years ago and from what I remember there was only one Shankar Lal story in it and no Sambu or Digambara Swamiyar story.

swapna wrote:

Rashmun wrote:

bw wrote:moving it here since i don't want to corrupt the thread on MH370...

Father Paul wrote:Yes the Father Paul I mean Father Brown stories are among the best detective stories ever written. I sometimes wonder whether the tamil fictional detective Digambara Swamiyar was based on Father Brown. Have you read the detective stories featuring Shankar Lal, Digambara Swamiyar, Thupparium Sambu, etc?

Meanwhile do take a look at this:

http://www.thrillingdetective.com/trivia/triv188.html

i have read some of them in bits and pieces. since i didn't study tamil at school, i used to read a lot of trashy magazines and detective stories to improve my tamil reading. i tried to read "ponniyin selvan" and other classics too at my mother's insistence but never got too far with them.

i plan to watch the bbc series on father brown. shall check out your link - v.gangadhar is related to me in some way, i think.

I really wanted to read the Sambu, Shankar Lal and Digambara Swamiyar stories. If you come across any English translation of these stories please let me know. Meanwhile, These look very promising:

http://www.amazon.com/Blaft-Anthology-Tamil-Fiction-Vol-II/dp/9380636008/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1394884062&sr=8-3&keywords=Tamil+pulp

http://www.amazon.com/Blaft-Anthology-Tamil-Pulp-Fiction-ebook/dp/B008GWE5N2/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1394884062&sr=8-2&keywords=Tamil+pulp

But I had glimpsed through Volume 1 some years ago and from what I remember there was only one Shankar Lal story in it and no Sambu or Digambara Swamiyar story.

I've never heard of Father Brown or Sambu.

Originally, Shankar Lal, I think, was serialized in a children's/boys' weekly/monthly magazine called KalkaNDu. My brother had a subscription to KalkaNDu, from which I would read the Shankar Lal story.

S. Lal's man friday was Maadhu, his household employee.

pravalika nanda wrote:

bw wrote:moving it here since i don't want to corrupt the thread on MH370...

Father Paul wrote:Yes the Father Paul I mean Father Brown stories are among the best detective stories ever written. I sometimes wonder whether the tamil fictional detective Digambara Swamiyar was based on Father Brown. Have you read the detective stories featuring Shankar Lal, Digambara Swamiyar, Thupparium Sambu, etc?

Meanwhile do take a look at this:

http://www.thrillingdetective.com/trivia/triv188.html

i have read some of them in bits and pieces. since i didn't study tamil at school, i used to read a lot of trashy magazines and detective stories to improve my tamil reading. i tried to read "ponniyin selvan" and other classics too at my mother's insistence but never got too far with them.

i plan to watch the bbc series on father brown. shall check out your link - v.gangadhar is related to me in some way, i think.

but who do you think is a better detective, father brown or Sherlock holmes?

I remember reading just a couple of father brown stories and the writing was good and interesting but now I feel like Sherlock holmes is more magnetic, probably cuz of the show. Strangely I've never read Doyle. I actually thought he was the writer of the FB series as well.