The state’s story is one of grand visions and a master plan with a long runway, with many blocks coming together over a thirty-year horizon November 29, 2023 / 12:18 PM IST If the IPL was a marketing phenomenon, the recent India-Australia World Cup Finals held at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad was the mother of all sporting events. Whatever happened was not (ordinary) cricket. The match was incidental or at best a sub-plot around which the property was created. The bigger story was the marketing of the city of Ahmedabad and the state of Gujarat. Analysed with hindsight, it all began with building the stadium and naming it after the…