17 May 2026

From Rajshahi to Silicon Valley — Anushandhanee Members in 2004

In 2003-2004, a team of Rajshahi students built medical software for a Silicon Valley company — and many of them were Anushandhanee members. From an archived newspaper report.

In June 2003, a group of teenagers and young men in Rajshahi began an unlikely project. Eighteen months later — in November 2004 — they shipped it: a Tissue Culture Development Monitoring Software built for Cellstat Inc, a medical-equipment manufacturer in Silicon Valley, USA. Entirely written in C/C++.

Rajshahi still remembers their names: Raju, Anna, Ishaq, Mehedi, Mahi, Himu — featured in a published congratulatory notice from Kamranga Software Limited.

But the most remarkable thing about this team — in the newspaper’s own words:

“The characteristic of this software team is that they are all students, none of them are students of computer science, and some are madrasah students.”

Not a single computer science student. Several madrasah students. They had taught themselves C/C++ programming and computer hardware on their own initiative, with mentoring from Kamranga Software’s scholarship program.

And critically — the Dainik Barta report makes a point of noting — “many of them are members of the Anushandhanee Science Club.”

We started in 1977 with one belief: that curiosity, not resources, is the real key to scientific inquiry. In 2004 this team proved how far that belief could carry. From a small computer lab in Rajshahi, software shipped to Tokyo the following January, and through a Japanese partner reached Europe and Asia.

These stories — from the young inventors of 1977 to the software engineers of 2004 — are Anushandhanee’s proudest chapters. “They are talented sons of Bengal”, the paper wrote. Twenty years on, we agree.