Quote by Arundhati Roy: “Another world is not only possible, she is on her way.”

Change feels impossible until it happens, and then it feels like it was always coming. By personifying a better world as 'she' — alive, moving, already en route — Roy refuses the cynicism that says nothing can change. Hope is not wishful thinking here; it is a description of something already in motion.

Roy delivered this in her speech 'Come September' at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre in 2003, and it was associated with her anti-globalisation writing from 2001 onward. The World Social Forum gathered activists, intellectuals, and social movements from around the world as a counter to the World Economic Forum, asserting that alternatives to neoliberal capitalism existed.

Indian author and activist from Kerala, best known for her debut novel The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1997. She subsequently became one of India's most prominent public intellectuals, writing extensively on nuclear weapons, caste, corporate globalization, and state violence. Her essays are collected in multiple volumes including The Algebra of Infinite Justice.