Village 1104

Village 1104 is a novel written and illustrated by Indian author and social activist Prateek Arora. The book is a first-person narrative which revolves around a professor, Abhimanyu Shergill, and four children, Sid, Rishabh, Murari and Priya. Prateek, in this book, talks about the various kinds of pressure an Indian student has to go through: parental pressure, peer pressure and gender-biases. The book narrates how these four failures in the city land in a village which is not even significant enough to get a name in the directory of the Indian Government. Prateek shows how these four failures combine to make a success for the village, which at the end is known all over the country for the drastic change it goes through because of the four children that visited it.

Characters

• Abhimanyu Shergill
• Siddhart
• Priya
• Rishabh
• Murari
• Sukhlal ji
• Akriti
• Naresh
• Mr. Bhandari
• Mrs. Bhandari
• Mr. Bhardawaj

About the author

Village 1104 was the debut book by Prateek Arora who wrote it at the age of 16. The book received coverage in seven Indian newspapers. Prateek released a version of the book called The Reviewer's Edition, through which he wanted to collect reviews from all the readers. Knowing how the readers wanted the book to be, he would publish the next edition of the book in April, 2010. As of 20 March 2010, Prateek said in one of his interviews, that he had received a huge number of reviews by the readers and now had a clear image of what the next edition would be like.

References

• The Deccan Chronicle, 16 March 2010, Jyoti Verma, "Born with a pen", New Delhi
• The Hindu, 16 March 2010, Poonam Kumar, "School notes", New Delhi
• The Asian Age, 16 March 2010, Jyoti Verma, "Born with a pen-how to strike a balance between your inner passion and your studies"
• Born with a pen, Jyoti Verma, Deccan Chronicle
• Budding young writer of DPS RK Puram
• Born with a pen, Asian Age
• World News-Born with a pen
• The Hindu, March 16, 2010
• Indiatimes, March 2010