Tarzie Vittachi

Tarzie Vittachi (September 23, 1921 – September 17, 1993), was a Sri Lankan journalist. He was born in Colombo, Ceylon. Vittachi authored two popular columns "Bouquets and Brickbats", and "Fly by Night" in the Ceylon Daily News. He later became the youngest editor (at 32) of the oldest newspaper in Asia, The Ceylon Observer, which was founded in 1834. He wrote a book known as Emergency 58 about the country's race riots in 1958 that won him the Magsaysay Prize in 1959.

Publications Emergency '58: The story of the Ceylon race riots (1959) Andre Deutsch The Brown Sahib (1962) Andre Deutsch Trials of Transition in the Island of the Sun. A political satire (1962) A Reporter of Subud (1963) Dharma book Co. Times of Transition (1964) The Fall of Sukarno (1967) The Brown Sahib Revisited (1987) New Delhi: Penguin South America, Central America and the Caribbean. 2nd ed. (1987) Europa Publications International A Memoir of Subud (1988) Subud Publications International Between the Guns: Children as a Zone of Peace (1993) Hodder & Stoughton Special Assignment: A Subud Trilogy (1996) Subud Publications Int. Subudo Reporteris (2005) Susila Budhi Dharma and Fruitful Droppings: From the Legacy of Tarzie Vittachie by Matthew Barry Sullivan (1997) Subud Publications International