India, March 14 -- Your memoir is called Speaking My Mind. How did you find your voice?

Well, it took a bit of work because this happened to be my first time writing a book. I found it very useful to be able to write down my thoughts immediately when something struck me as worthy of putting into the book. As a politician, I wrote speeches, memos and articles but never a narrative with dialogue like this one. Because I am not a professional writer, I also got some help from Deirdre Nuttall. She was kind of my co-writer. After each chapter, she would come in, speak to me, then rewrite it with me to make it more readable and then I would write again. It was quite a slow process but it worked really well for me and eventually for the book. ...