(Arun Naik, Bapurao Naik's elder son speaks at the Mumbai Marathi Sahitya Sangh kickstarting Bapurao Naik's centenary year celebrations).
School textbooks were partly nationalised and mostly private. Some of the government textbooks were horrible. Pra Ke Atre, the editor of Maratha, criticised these in his editorials. History and geography books were the worst. The English translations were horrible. Bolun chalun Shivaji motha raja hota was translated as ‘walking talking Shivaji was a great king’. The government decided to change all this. And the Bureau of Textbooks Production and Curriculum Research was found in 1967. My father was appointed the first Controller of Production. He had full control over all the operations after the MSS was prepared by the Curriculum Research wing.
