Yousuf Saeed is a Delhi-based independent filmmaker and researcher, who started his career in television in 1990, co-directing the science series Turning Point for Doordarshan. He moved on to produce documentaries on a variety of subjects including Amir Khusrau, qawwali, Hindustani music and Urdu literature. Yousuf’s most recent work is a feature length documentary film Khayal Darpan about the state of classical music in Pakistan. Yousuf regularly makes lecturing tours in India and abroad, and has recently spoken or shown his films at universities such as JNU and Delhi in India and Harvard, Boston, Columbia, and New York among others. More about him: yousufsaeed.com, and about these workshops at www.ektara.org