Diran Chrakian
Diran Chrakian was an Armenian poet, writer, painter and teacher, and a victim of Armenian Genocide.Biography
Diran Chrakian 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" and "Cypress Wood", with the pseudonym Indra.
He became a prominent member of the Seventh-day Adventist church in the Ottoman Empire, having joined the church in 1913.
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.
