Diran Chrakian

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).

[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.