THE VANISHING ACT By Bernard VanCuylenburg An appropriate title for this article would have been “The Dorai” the “Swami” and the man who disappeared ! But for reasons of brevity I have confined it to three words although the essence of this story is the Hindu priest (Swami) who would put Houdini to shame ! Wanarajah Group Dickoya, is three miles away from Hatton and a mile away from Dickoya on the Hatton-Dickoya road. It is set amidst the beautiful tea growing regions of the Dickoya district and had an acreage of 1595 acres when the incidents depicted in this article occurred or, in theatrical prose, when the events related were played out. The Manager of Wanarajah at the time was an Englishman, Mr.Sinclair. One evening returning from Hatton, and branching off on the estate road leading to the estate, he noticed a statue of a Hindu deity with a garland ...