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Remembering Deshamanya Professor Tony Furkhan On His First Death Anniversary – May 8, 2023 A year has passed since the departure of my brother Tony Furkhan. I share and reminisce our very fond and cherished memories in our life together. We two, plus my late brother Sapthy (who passed away at the age of sixteen) together with my sister Mashooratha were the last four youngest living siblings of the Thassim family. My brother and I had a five-year age difference. But we might have well been twins. Our life is so intertwined like two strings making up a rope. We both started schooling at Siddhartha College Balapitiya. Then we both and my sister lived with our eldest brother Mansoor at 14th Lane Kollupitiya. During this time my brother Tony had a fall cleaning an inside window in the house and for many years was limping with one leg shorter than ...