 He hoped to become an experimental scientist like Jagadish Chandra Bose, Newton or Edison.Although Chandan did not accomplish this, he expresses his love of experimentation in art and literature.In 1968 and for several years thereafter, he participated in poetry readings at the Saturday open-air "MuktaMela" fairs at the Kolkata Maidan grounds with other contemporary poets like Tushar Roy, Rabindra Bhattacharya, Bablu Roy Choudhury, Satya Ranjan Biswas, Pranab Basu Ray, Samar Bandyopadhyay and Abu Atahar; this taught him how to perform his poetry in later life.