Pittsburgh_Patrika_July_2015

The Pittsburgh Patrika, Vol. 20, No. 4, July, 2015
New Convenience Store Opportunity
• The new C-Store Mini Mart was developed by former 7-Eleven Executives.
They know the business very well, and also know what the new owners
need to succeed.
• They want to build 10,000 locations in 20 years nation-wide
• This is not a franchise. You own the business with corporate support.
• Choose your location — strip mall, free-standing, or convert your existing
store.
• Why pay 7-Eleven 55% of every $ you earn? Purchase your store now while
locations are available.
• No Franchise Fee • No Royalty • No Advertising Fee • No Revenue
Sharing.
• $ 250-k to $350-k for New Turn-Key store. $150-k for Business Con-version.
Financing available with 50% down payment and 0% APR with the purchase
of 2 or more stores.
• For brochures, store amenities, locations, design concepts etc., contact
Richard Ames. Phone: 724 272 9431 or e-mail: rbames@rbames.com
Radical Marriage ... ... continued from Page 22
vegetarian groom for my son (36, 5'11") who works with an NGO, caste
no bar (though Iyer preferred).” (Emphasis mine).
After all, the ad, in one fundamental measure, was not radical at all,
but very, very traditional. For, it was placed, not by Harrish Iyer himself
courageously seeking a same-sex partner in marriage, but by Harrish’s
mother Padma Iyer, who supports her son’s gay identity and even walked
with him in the Queer Azadi Mumbai parade. At another level, it was as
radical as it gets anywhere in the world — a mother placing a matrimonial
ad seeking proposals from other gay men for her gay son.
We wish Harrish Iyer well in his life whoever he chooses to be his
partner and wherever he chooses to live. And we hope that in
his married life with a gay partner of his choice — and also his mother’s
choice, if you go by the ad — the Indian tradition stops with his mother
helping him choose his partner. Ok, give her some slack: Maybe, with
her finalizing Harrish Iyer’s wedding details.
If it extends beyond his traditionally arranged, yet very radical gay
Indian marriage, it has the potential of his mother’s shadowy presence
interfering — and even wrecking — his gay marriage, as it happens so
often in traditionally arranged straight Desi marriages. •
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