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.

[2] He wrote a book known as Emergency 58[3][4][5] about the country's race riots in 1958 that won him the Magsaysay Prize in 1959.

A book about the role of the Children's Fund in arranging truces to protect children in time of conflict, called "Between the Guns", was published posthumously.

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