About Advaita Chandra

This is the official website of Advaita Chandra.

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.

Identity & Roles

  • Full Name: Advaita Chandra
  • Roles: Student and Developer
  • Location: West Bengal, India
  • Official Website: https://advaitachandra.in/

Verified Profiles & Networks

Technologies & Developer Toolkit

Tools and technologies used in projects and digital experiments:

  • Web Development: React, JavaScript (ESNext), HTML5, CSS3, Tailwind CSS, Vite
  • Data & Computation: Python, Matplotlib, Data Wrangling, Source Reconciliation
  • Backend & Infrastructure: Supabase, Vercel, Git

Current Projects

  • advaitachandra.in: The website you are looking at right now. Built as a learning project to understand modern front-end development: component architecture, responsive design, data persistence with Supabase, and deployment via GitHub Pages. It is also the container for everything else on this site — the research, the photography, and the writing.
    Status: in-progress | Tools: React, Vite, Tailwind CSS, Framer Motion, Supabase, GitHub Pages
  • Terrorism in India: Data Visualization, 1947–2026: A data-visualisation project examining terrorism in India across 1947–2026. The bulk of the work was not plotting but reconciliation: available records for this subject are uneven across decades, and different organisations define and count incidents differently. Rather than flattening that into one authoritative series, the project treats the gaps and the disagreements as findings in their own right.
    Status: completed | Tools: Python, matplotlib
  • Osho: A Research Document: A comprehensive research and writing project about Osho, written in a documentary register. The subject is unusually contested — accounts of his life, teaching and organisations differ sharply depending on who is telling the story. The document is organised around that problem: it records competing accounts side by side and marks where the record is disputed, rather than presenting a single settled narrative.
    Status: completed | Tools: Source reading and note-taking, Long-form drafting
  • Worksheet Generator: A product design for generating school worksheets and related documents. The central idea is a strict separation of concerns across four layers, so that what a worksheet says, how it is arranged, and how it is styled can each change without disturbing the others — and so that automated generation remains genuinely optional rather than load-bearing. This is a design document and architecture, not software.
    Status: concept | Tools: System design, Written specification

Research Approach

Ask better questions
A vague question produces a vague answer. Most of the work happens before the research starts — narrowing a question until it is specific enough to be answered, and honest enough to admit what it excludes.
Examine evidence
Find out where a number or claim actually came from. When sources disagree, record the disagreement rather than picking whichever figure is most convenient.
Understand context
A fact without its context is easy to misuse. Definitions, time periods and methods of counting change what a figure means, so they belong alongside it.
Explain clearly
If I cannot explain something plainly, I probably do not understand it yet. Writing is the test, not the write-up.

Epistemic Framework

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.