New York, Oct. 2 -- India's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Harish Parvathaneni on Friday (local time) recalled Prime Minister Narendra Modi's conversation with Indian pilot Captain Smit Machchhar, the pilot whose heroics thwarted an attack from his co-pilot on a flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv, saving 180 lives, saying that the pilot's act of courage represented a "true embodiment" of Mahatma Gandhi's principle of Ahimsa, or non-violence.

Addressing an event at the UN to commemorate the International Day of Non-Violence, in honour of the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, Parvathaneni highlighted the enduring relevance of the Father of the Nation's principles of peace, non-violence, human dignity and development....