Indian – Shubnum Khan

South Africans Married to Foreigners Face Hurdles (Huffpost SA)

This piece on the hurdles South Africans face when married to foreigners was originally published in Huffington Post South Africa here: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.za/2017/02/13/for-south-africans-married-to-foreigners-there-are-more-than-th_a_21713128/ “I never thought I would marry a foreigner, let alone live in a different country,” Sarona Reddy a 34-year-old law graduate from Durban, tells me over Skype from […]

For South African Indians Love Is Not Colour Blind (HuffPost SA)

My piece on skin lightening on South Africa’s Indian community for the Huffington Post. Originally published here http://www.huffingtonpost.co.za/2017/01/25/for-south-african-indians-love-isnt-colour-blind_a_21655793/ When I was little, an aunt pulled me aside to give me some marriage advice. She told me to find a man so fair that when he stood next to a white […]

Finding Common Ground (O, the Oprah Magazine)

(Originally published in O, the Oprah magazine, January 2010)