Malini Shankar is a photojournalist, radio broadcaster and documentary filmmaker based in Bangalore, India. Malini runs the Weltanschauung Worldview Media Centre (www.wwmcindia.com). Malini has specialised in writing about wildlife conservation, biodiversity, indigenous peoples issues, WTO issues, earth sciences, ocean sciences and disaster management. Malini is a correspondent of Inter Press News Service (IPS - www.ipsnews.net/)
Walter Keller has worked as a photographer and written extensively on South Asian countries for various newsprint agencies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. His engagement with the Asian region began more than thirty years ago, and he has continued to travel, photograph and engage ever since.