Chester is a rather superior, know-it-all who decides to take a trip around India. He is a 12 centimeter-long stuffed dog and a bit of a genius and a hypochondriac. He is also very cute but can be a rather large pain in the neck at times. Chester suffers from a series of ludicrous attention seeking ailments, including an itchy eyeball (it somehow itches on the inside), a strained nostril and an aching claw. Moaning and groaning about the world in general is one of Chester's many talents along with fi nding too many things in life utterly repugnant and of course being extremely superior. Chester embarks on various wacky adventures while in India and provides the reader with a genuine fl avour of the subcontinent. He experiences wild and wonderful rides on trains and rickshaws, gets terribly ill, attempts to become a dancer, tries to "fi nd himself" and at some stage becomes worshipped by westerners in search of inner peace.