sentences:  He did original research in statistics and pioneered its education in Bangladesh both as a faculty and administrator.As one the early faculties of University of Dhaka, he was vigorously active in the cultural circles that grew around it.As a Dhaka-centric literary figure in late British India, a period marked by communality and religious sentiment, Hossain and his literary group "Shikha" distinguished themselves as proponents of communal harmony and rationalism.