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One deep conversation, transformed into a literary portrait of the person you actually are.

For ninety minutes, we talk beyond the biography people usually offer strangers. Not just where you studied, what you built or whom you married, but what you envy, what you repeat, which version of yourself you abandoned and which memory still changes temperature when you touch it. Then I leave the conversation and write.

What returns is a literary portrait of the person I heard underneath the résumé and the rehearsed stories. You may agree with every line or argue with some of them. Indifference is the one outcome I am not interested in.

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How we work

  1. You reach out. Share the photograph, the person, the situation or the fragment - as much or as little as you can bear to. There is no correct brief.
  2. We agree the scope. Before anything is written, we settle what the piece is, its length and its intention. The commission is confirmed with a 50% advance.
  3. I write. The work is made for you alone, delivered within 3–4 weeks after the conversation. One considered revision is included so the words land exactly where they should.

Scope & confidentiality

Every commission begins with an agreed scope - what will be written, its length, its tone and its purpose - so there are no surprises on either side. Nothing is begun before that scope and the advance are settled together.

What you share stays private. Your story, your materials and the finished writing are treated as yours alone and are never published, resold or used elsewhere without your explicit, written consent. Where a commission is anonymous by design, that anonymity is protected without exception.

Before you commission

The practical details, without making you decode the poetry.

The literary opening tells you what the service feels like. These answers tell you exactly how it works, what is delivered and where the boundaries sit.

What is this service?

One deep interview transformed into a literary portrait of the person behind the rehearsed biography.

Who is it for?

Individuals, families or organisations wanting a concentrated human story without commissioning a full memoir.

What will I receive?

One substantial literary portrait shaped from the recorded or noted conversation and reviewed for factual accuracy.

How does the interview or briefing work?

A long-form guided conversation moves through origins, turning points, work, love, loss, contradictions, objects and the stories usually skipped in formal profiles.

What information or material should I prepare?

Time for the interview, basic biographical anchors, optional photographs or documents, and clarity about private or off-record subjects.

How long does it take?

The current typical delivery window shown for this service is 3–4 weeks after the conversation. Timing begins after the agreed interview and source material are complete.

What does it cost?

The current listed fee is ₹30,000. 50% to begin. Any change in length, research, number of interviews, urgency, design or commercial rights is agreed before additional work begins.

How many revisions are included?

One included. Revision is for factual, tonal or emphasis adjustments within the accepted brief; a different audience, form or central direction may require a new scope.

How is confidentiality handled?

Private material is used only for the agreed commission. RDC Unsaid does not publish, quote, reuse or turn the work into a portfolio example without explicit written permission.

Who owns and may use the final writing?

The finished work is supplied for the use agreed in the commission. Personal sharing is normally part of that purpose; public, commercial, adaptation and attribution rights should be recorded in the accepted scope or agreement.

When might this not be the right service?

It is not a journalistic exposé, psychological assessment or exhaustive biography.