Spreuken over Natuur

Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

We have a lot of gas in storage, and May natural gas contract prices are trading comfortably around $7.50. The price action tells me that the market might think current gas storage levels are not enough.

An end to the ceasefire would naturally mean resumption of violence. But there is still some hope that the Maoists will continue with their unilateral ceasefire for some time.

What's happening is that the two groups assume that the nature of the debate is really a matter of disagreement about their own sides' core issues. Each side is assuming that people in the other group oppose what they hold most dear to themselves - what's most important to their side - but in fact their adversaries really don't oppose them.

We have seen a change in the nature of attacks in the past couple of months with these killings. We hope these incidents will not deter families from sending their children to school.