(Arun Naik, Bapurao Naik's elder son speaks at the Mumbai Marathi Sahitya Sangh kickstarting Bapurao Naik's centenary year celebrations).
Even after writing Typography of Devanagari my father continued his interest in the subject. Monotype and Linotype both embarked upon phototypesetting. Hot metal technology started dying out, as did the Gutenberg process of letterpress. Lithography, invented by Alois Senefelder in 1796, developed into offset printing. Hot metal type was of no use. As letterpress got slowly replaced by offset lithography the hot metal mechanised composing machines gave way to photo-typesetters. And it became necessary to design type faces and keyboards for Devanagari. My father had the foresight and he founded the Akshar Samshodhan Kendra with old and new typographers including L.S. Wakankar and Ra Kru Joshi. They both designed typefaces for various machines. My father designed Shariva Devanagari for the Quadritek photosetting machine.
