Kandasamy Iyer Balanadarajah Iyer (Balanadarasan), also known as Sinna Bala,[1] (6 June 1957 – 16 August 2004) was a Sri Lankan Tamil activist, writer and poet who was a media secretary and a senior member of the Eelam People's Democratic Party.
Balanadarasan was born on June 6, 1957, in Urelu Jaffna to a Teacher named N. Kandasamy Iyer and his wife Ambigai Amma.
Yalpanam N. Veeramani Iyer (well known Sri Lankan Carnatic Music Composer and a Dance lecturer) is the paternal uncle to Balanadarasan.
Balanadarasan was the publisher of Tharkeegam, the mouthpiece of the Eelam People's Democratic Party.
He utilized the pseudonym "Ilaiyavan" when writing his books such as veedu, Kaniuruthi, Porkalam, Malaiyaitharatha vanam and the well known political book "Thimbu Muthal Tokyo Varai" On August 16, 2004, he was gunned down in Colombo by gunmen believed to be members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.