Conversational and engaging, natural and spontaneous, casually yet sensitively, Talat Rahim helps us all to put aside stock positions and customary poses, instinctive responses, and habitual hoiti-toitiness –to slip into a private washroom, otherwise unoccupied-to take a good, bad, hard look in the mirror at our external faces and our internal hearts, to smile a lot as we realize our foibles, to wistfully note the ironies of what makes up our respective beings, to restore our make- up, or re-comb our hair, as the case may be, and step straight back into the familiar comforting world of our happy hypocrisies.