More than 1,200 ideas on how best the complex could be utilised
The response has been tremendous, even overwhelming. Taking up
the challenge tossed at them by The Hindu on August 7, hundreds
of readers and concerned citizens have submitted more than 1,200
ideas on how best the sprawling complex on Anna Salai, which was
originally meant to house the Secretariat and Legislative
Assembly of Tamil Nadu, could be put to use.  With imagination
and public spirit, students and teachers, salaried employees and
businessmen, technicians and architects, senior citizens and
serving government employees, from the city, from elsewhere in
Tamil Nadu and the country, and from far-flung places such as
Britain, Sweden, the United States, Canada and Kuwait have
written in their suggestions and views on putting life back into
the building. Many are identified by no more than a name and an
e-mail address, while others have backed their ideas with a
summation of their qualifications or their reasons for their
proposals.  As this n