(Arun Naik, Bapurao Naik's elder son speaks at the Mumbai Marathi Sahitya Sangh kickstarting Bapurao Naik's centenary year celebrations).
My father retired from the Bureau of Textbooks in 1975 at the age of 55, as he had decided to do very early in his career. The work that he did has remained till today. But the government and the officers do not have the vision which Bapurao had. I had to wage a war against the Bureau in 2000 with PILs and writ petitions. The paper is now 58 gsm from 70 gsm. The size has been reduced by compromising on the margins. Section sewing has been dropped for wire stitching. Today's textbooks are worse than those of the pre-Bureau era.
