Advaita Chandra

Student and developer from West Bengal, India

I'm Advaita — a student with a long-running interest in philosophy, Indian politics, technology, and data. This site is where I share what I'm researching and building. I'm not presenting myself as an expert; I'm documenting the process of learning, questioning, and improving.

Official website: https://advaitachandra.in/

Core Epistemic Principles

Across this site I try to keep four things visually distinct: what a source says, what I infer from it, what I simply think, and what I do not know. Where you see a labelled block, that is what it is doing.

Featured Projects

  • advaitachandra.in

    This site — a personal space built with React, Vite, Tailwind, and Supabase, deployed on GitHub Pages.

    Tools: React, Vite, Tailwind CSS, Framer Motion, Supabase, GitHub Pages

  • Terrorism in India: Data Visualization, 1947–2026

    A matplotlib-based visualisation of terrorism in India over time, built around the problem that the underlying records are incomplete and the sources disagree.

    Tools: Python, matplotlib

  • Osho: A Research Document

    A long-form, documentary-style research and writing project on Osho, structured to keep documented events separate from contested interpretation.

    Tools: Source reading and note-taking, Long-form drafting

  • Worksheet Generator

    A concept-stage design for a school worksheet and document generation system, separated into four layers. No implementation exists.

    Tools: System design, Written specification

Philosophy Notes & Inquiry

A running record of what I'm reading, questioning, and trying to think clearly about. This isn't a set of conclusions, it's a log of an ongoing process. Where something is my own interpretation rather than an established idea, I've tried to say so plainly.

  • On Krishnamurti and the Mechanics of the Observer

    Epistemology | 2025-11-14

    Krishnamurti argues that psychological conflict begins when the observer separates themselves from what is observed—treating fear, envy, or restlessness as an external object to be managed or suppressed. When reading this alongside contemporary cognitive psychology, the central question is whether direct observation without internal verbal commentary is neurologically sustainable, or if the 'silent observer' is simply another sub-network of narrative metacognition. My working hypothesis: non-verbal attention does not eliminate mental constructs, but slows the recursive loop of reactive self-justification, allowing one to notice automatic habits before acting on them.

  • Camus: The Absurd as an Epistemic Baseline

    Existentialism | 2025-10-02

    In The Myth of Sisyphus, the absurd is not a property of the universe alone; it is the friction produced when the human longing for clarity collides with an unanswering world. Rather than leaping into metaphysical certainty or cynicism, Camus demands maintaining the tension without illusion. For scientific and data work, this serves as a useful discipline: accept the presence of unresolvable ambiguity and missing data without losing the appetite for rigorous, sustained inquiry.

  • Dostoevsky on Rational Egoism and Irrational Will

    Psychology & Ethics | 2025-08-19

    Reading Notes from Underground against modern behavioral economics: utilitarian and rational choice models often assume that individuals will act in their enlightened self-interest once adequately informed. Dostoevsky's underground narrator directly attacks this assumption—humans will deliberately choose irrationality, suffering, and spite if that is what preserves their sense of autonomy. Any computational or institutional system that assumes pure utility maximization consistently misjudges human behavior because it underestimates the human refusal to be treated as a predictable equation.