Dhaka, Aug. 8 -- There is a celebrated saying by Pablo Picasso to the effect that art is a lie which tells the truth. The reality of that paradox struck me when I came across a Youtube video in which a child living in an orphanage draws his mother's outlines in chalk on the ground, large enough for him to lie down and go to sleep in her extended and yet protective arms. His "lying" piece of artwork - for art is a lie - tells the umbilical truth about a mother-child relationship: It is indivisible. One cannot say that this part of the relationship belongs to the mother and that part to the child. The child is born of the mother, and the mother lives on in the child. The mother's womb turns into her lap after the child is born. When the mot...