Optimism is a great friend but a bad guide. The Asian Social Forum meeting in Hyderabad, India, deliberately avoided this truism while proclaiming grandly: "Another world is possible". Another world is definitely possible. In fact it exists. The numerous communities that gathered there, with their own stories of survival and governance, are living proof. They, out of the audible limit of the protests against globalisation and sale of the planet to a few corporate houses, have evolved and developed an alternative world. Neither a government's world, nor a private world, but a people's world. That is how the optimism of another world has taken real shape.
