We meet our hero Subroto Bandhopadhyay, Stoob to you and I, on a holiday in Thailand with his friend Ishani and their families. While we expect the sun, sand and surf to keep the twelve-year-old occupied, it isn’t turning out to be as relaxing as Stoob would like—he has an embarrassing story to narrate, an incident, which involves a girl, Mala Kapoor. Stoob is turning out to be a fun and engaging series. Stoob, Ishani and Rehan are such well chalked out characters, with lots in common, yet plenty to set apart one from another. Rehan is your typical nerd who googles everything and seems to know way lot more than what everyone else around does. Ishani is the pivot around which the other two function—smart and sensible. Stoob isn’t your typical nerd, but neither is he just another boy, he remains a person who can achieve whatever he sets out to do as long as he can put his head to it, as we learn time and again in the series.
November 2016, volume 40, No 11