Both have had to take on cases of national importance to avert war or prevent information leaking to enemies.(Example: Chorabali, “ The Abbey Grange“). Both Byomkesh Bakshi and Sherlock Holmes are willing to give extrajudicial justice after conferring with Ajit and Watson, respectively. Both realize that following the law isn’t always the moral thing to do.(Reference: Pother Kanta, Holmes referred to it as the Agony Column in “ The Engineer’s Thumb“). Both find that the personal classified advertisements are the most informative section of the newspaper.Both detectives have faced bumbling, arrogant, but ultimately inefficient police officers from the force in the form of Bidhubabu at Lalbazar or Inspector Lestrade at Scotland Yard (Reference: Arthamanartham and “ The Norwood Builder“).Both detectives show extreme loyalty to their friends, but also scold them when they make errors (Reference: Chorabali and “ The Solitary Cyclist“) Both have featured in adventures that are written up for the public by their less observant colleagues (either Ajit or Dr.Similarities between Byomkesh Bakshi and Sherlock Holmes: In fact, Pother Kanta, the first story featuring Byomkesh was written close to twenty years after Holmes’ final case. The earliest Byomkesh Bakshi stories have some superficial resemblances to the Sherlock Holmes stories. Still, if we want to search for similarities between the two great detectives we should start at the very beginning. John Watson are essentially unchanged during the decades they work together (even though we know that Watson was married). On the other hand, Sherlock Holmes and his chronicler Dr. During the course of his detective career, Byomkesh gets married to Satyabati, and has a son. His earliest Byomkesh stories are written in a formal first-person style with Ajit narrating, while his later works are more literary, free-flowing in third-person narrative. In fact, I actually prefer some of Byomkesh’s investigations.Īlso, during his literary career, Saradindu himself drifted from his original style. Therefore, I have no reason to doubt that Saradindu carefully crafted each storyline based on his own constructed plots. Still, because of Holmes’ systematic and deliberate use of scientific methods, most detectives that follow him at least bear some similarities.Īs far as I am aware, all of the Byomkesh Bakshi stories are original.
Auguste Dupin and Émile Gaboriau’s Monsieur Lecoq. Most people are unaware that Holmes was also modeled partly after two earlier detectives, Edgar Allan Poe’s C. R ecently I saw a post on an interesting debate on the similarities between Saradindu Bandyopadhyay’s Byomkesh Bakshi stories and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s writings featuring Sherlock Holmes.
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