8226; This is with reference to the article ‘Come on, General’ by K. Subrahmanyam IE, April 18. As a celebrated Pakistani columnist put it some time ago, “Kashmir is a corps commanders’ issue” and not a “core” issue. However, General Pervez Musharraf appeared to be mellowing, as when he said this week that the problem is difficult to solve because of “mutual intransigence”. But it must be admitted that the General is astride a tiger, having come to power through a coup d’etat, like his predecessors in uniform. While his hardliner colleagues in the services may not allow him to come to an understanding with the Indian leadership, he has also to reckon with American susceptibilities. Yet, while “plebiscite”, as an idea, is as good as abandoned, and a re-drawing of the “map” is not acceptable to us, as Subrahmanyam has put it so pithily, can the General put new ideas on the table for India?