India, Aug. 4 -- As Glasgow2026 gave the sporting world a clear look at how mega sporting events can be organised with the shortest of notices and tightest of budgets, thoughts wandered to the course Amdavad2030 chooses to take. When the CWG return to India, Amdavad2030 will mark a century of Commonwealth Games, which when first held in Hamilton, Canada were titled the British Empire Games.

A hundred years later how does Amdavad/ Ahmedabad - home to that Empire-slayer Mahatma Gandhi and his Sabarmati Ashram - interpret a sporting event that now houses a diverse, diffused bunch of nations? Surely Gandhian ideals of non-violence and sustainability - more resonant across our troubled world today - will be front and centre in Amdavad2030's p...