MANOJ BHURARIA is a retired Indian Naval officer, who relinquished the uniformed Service in May 2023 as Commodore, having spent over three and a half decades in the Navy whites. He specialises in-Service as a Naval Architect who was largely involved in design, construction, overseeing and maintenance of Naval ships and submarines. He has a Post-graduate degree in Naval Construction from IIT Delhi, besides an M.Tech in Corrosion Science & Engineering from IIT Bombay. Cmde Manoj’s last appointment, prior retirement, was that of a Principal Director in Naval HQ, New Delhi. Manoj possesses additional qualifications in Personality assessment, Guidance & Counselling, NLP as well as Life-coaching. As a qualified Personality assessor from Defence Institute of Psychological Research-Delhi, he headed one of the Services Selection Boards (SSB) of the Indian Navy as its President, and has personally interviewed more than 1600 prospective candidates vying for officers’ selection in the Indian Navy. Post-retirement, Manoj has shifted roles in sync with his aptitude and calling. He articulates his vision as, “to utilise my hard-earned knowledge and varied experience in guiding/mentoring the young generation through writing, coaching and conducting empowering sessions”. Manoj is also an author. He launched his first book, ‘How our Children Brought-us Up’, in Sep 23, which is a semi-autobiographical account of his and his wife’s journey of self-growth through parenting. Subsequently, he started his dream venture, ‘Marg-Darshan’ with his wife, Monika – who herself is a Pre-/Post-Natal Yoga Instructor, Motherhood coach (Garbh-Sanskari) and a Su-jok therapist – to provide services involving counselling, Life-coaching, women-specific short-courses, etc., essentially, addressing the issues in the psycho-social domain that are increasingly besetting our society and threatening to upset its structure – from the individual to family to organisations.