Udupi, Nov. 28 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday turned a massive spiritual gathering in Udupi into a platform for one of his sharpest national-security articulations, declaring that India's defence doctrine is rooted in the Bhagavad Gita and asserting that "this new India bows before none."While the Laksha Kantha Gita Parayana event drew one lakh voices reciting the Gita, the Prime Minister used the occasion to underline that the scripture's message forms the philosophical backbone of the country's modern security posture-guided by Mission Sudarshan Chakra and reinforced through actions like Operation Sindoor after the Pahalgam terror attack.
Modi said the Gita teaches that peace requires firmness against forces of oppression, a p...