Sanhati-Tepantar is a political community that struggles with new forms of interpretation and new visions of social construction. Directing its creativity against given norms, Sanhati-Tepantar seeks to become a critical space for engaging with hegemonic orders (capitalism, orientalism, modernism, androcentrism, patriarchy, brahminism, racism, and so on). However, Sanhati-Tepantar is not just a critical space. Its criticality is telescoped within the proposition it champions. Its ideal is cooperation without which it believes the highest form of humanity cannot be achieved. Based on this ideal, it advocates and cultivates aspects of sharing and solidarity in individual, institutional and community life, promotes creativity and aesthetic moments in economic, cultural and political practices. It is committed to forms of engagement, between humans as also between humans and nature that is based on the ‘power of love' and not on the ‘power of the muscle'. Collecting these strands, Sanhati-Tepantar as political community is committed to the goal of seeking transformation of human mindsets-attitudes so that they are able to turn away from normativities to directions where the path of a new humanity awaits us all.
