Samas Media Lab

We’re back again and this time I am delighted to bring you the representation of the idea of Harman Sahi, all of 11 years old and a student from Bombay who has put forth his idea using clay and color, Here’s Harman explaining his idea: “In the above picture I try to show the three words ‘coll...

Started in 2003, the Kabir project brings together the experiences of a series of journeys in quest of this 15th century mystic poet in our contemporary worlds. It consists of 4 documentary films, 2 folk music videos and 10 music CDs accompanied by books of the poetry in translation...

“I realised I am not western at all, I am not eastern at all. I am something in between, a mixture. I’m a foreigner in Asia, I’m a foreigner in Europe. I’m at home here. I have my own values.” - Film maker, Istanbul. European...

Last fortnight, I wrote an article about how people around the world are using the audio /video medium of podcasts to share their views and create new and interesting things...

We now bring to you a new banner that breaks away from the digitally done banners and is a simple yet effective idea that has been done by Nehal Ahmed, illustrator and serial blogger… Here is her interpretation and banner: “We are all, essentially, curious little children. We...

Ladies and gentlemen and whatever else you may or may not be, presenting to you what might be rightly described as Four guys a girl and no pizza place at all (for the lack of money obviously and music doesn’t pay too much from the part of the country where they come from) They are the hottest new a...

In the last few years India has seen a huge rise in the number of independent record labels, and musicians who have taken to publishing and distributing their work independently. Underscore Records Pvt. Ltd...

It is around nine in the night in a seemingly sleepy village in Gujarat. You can sense there is something different today. Instead of being in their homes and sleeping, everyone is in the village center and a hot discussion is going on...

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. Now, you don’t want that, do you? It’s pretty simple to ignore issues of importance and yet crib about them and pretend to be bothered about it. It...

I didn’t follow the U.S. ...

There is a career option available to people today that didn’t exist two years ago, one that people would have laughed at you for even talking about; imagine this, you and a couple of friends, hanging out on your couch, sipping beer and talking about the latest cool / funny stories you heard. ...

With the beginning of a new year, our first new banner introduces you not only to one of our regular authors Sid Nair but also acts as an announcement for our new column ‘7alking 7ech’. He...

Summit Attempt is a person’s dream that, by fate, came to life. The album, Blue Bugyal, is all about the music and the band that brought the music out on a CD. It has a nice mix to it from blues to electronic to rock. ...