Intra (Diran Chrakian)
Indra (Ինտրա, 1875, Constantinople,[1][2] Ottoman Empire - 1921) was an Armenian poet, writer, painter and teacher, a victim of Armenian Genocide.
His real name was Diran Chrakian (Տիրան Չրաքեան). He 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).
After the genocide of 1915, Indra lost his reason, walked as a tramp through provinces and preached love and unity. In 1921 he was exiled by the Turkish authorities and was tortured and killed on the way.
He also was a preacher of the Seventh-day Adventist church.
Notes
- ↑
- Finkel, Caroline, Osman's Dream, (Basic Books, 2005), 57; "Istanbul was only adopted as the city's official name in 1930..".
- ↑ "Treaty of Lausanne".
ARTICLE 91 All grants of patents and registrations of trade-marks, as well as all registrations of transfers or assignments of patents or trade marks which have been duly made since 30th October, 1918, by the Imperial Ottoman Government at Constantinople or elsewhere.
Sources
- 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
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