Diran Chrakian

Diran Chrakian, also known by the pseudonym Indra (Armenian: Ինտրա, 1875, in Constantinople,^[1][2] Ottoman Empire – 1921), was an Armenian poet, writer, painter and teacher, and a victim of Armenian genocide.

Diran Chrakian (alt spelling: Tcharakian) (Armenian: Տիրան Չրաքեան) was educated at Berberian College of Constantinople, then finished the College of Arts, where his works were appreciated by the famous painter Hovhannes Aivazovsky. Indra worked as a teacher, wrote articles, literary researches and notes. He signed his books "Inner World" (Ներաշխարհ, essays, 1906) and "Cypress Wood" (Նոճաստան, sonnets 1908), with the pseudonym Indra (anagram of his first name).^{[citation needed]}

He became a prominent member of the Seventh-day Adventist church in the Ottoman Empire, having joined the church in 1913.^[3]

After the genocide of 1915, he was forced on a 1,000 kilometre death march. He died on the banks of the river Tigris at Diyarbakır in 1921.^[4]

• Ցեղին սիրտը Western Armenian poetry, Yerevan, Arevik publ., 1991, ISBN 5-8077-0300-6, p. 705 (biography in Armenian)
• The Heritage of Armenian Literature: Volume III—From the Eighteenth Century to Modern Times, Edited by Agop J. Hacikyan, Edward S. Franchuk, Nourhan Ouzounian, and Gabriel Basmajian