Stories by Ronnie

Untold history · Narrated by Ronnie

The history they left out of your textbook.

I'm Ronnie. I make short films about secret deals, stolen borders and buried reports, the decisions that quietly shaped the world we live in. I write them, I voice them, and more and more, I step inside them.

    Animated Ronnie, the narrator of the reels, in a blue suit and round glasses Ronnie in first-century Roman costume for The Witness: Pompeii

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    A cinematic series · YouTube

    The Witness

    I walk into the past as a quiet observer, and stand where it happened. What I show you is drawn from people who were really there, and every claim names its source.

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    The archive

    Stories they didn't teach you.

    Timeline

    Walk through a thousand years.

    Every story, placed on the year it happened. Drag, scroll, or tap a moment to watch it.

    About

    Mumbai · Delhi · Berkeley · Toronto

    One storyteller. Two ways in.

    Animated Ronnie

    01 · The narrator

    Drawn, for the reels.

    Most of you knew my voice before you knew my face. I'm shy and awkward in front of a camera, so in the reels I became a drawing, and that let me put everything into the story and the telling.

    Ronnie in costume for The Witness

    02 · The witness

    Real, for the films.

    In the cinematic films I step into the past myself: Baghdad in 1258, Pompeii in 79 AD. I stand where it happened, and I leave the eyewitness claims to the people who were really there.

    Ronnie, photographed at sunset with a city skyline behind him
    The real one, off duty.

    I grew up in Mumbai, went to law school in Delhi and Berkeley, and now live and work in Toronto.

    Books were always my comfort when the world felt too complicated: history, law, philosophy, sociology. The more I read, the more ideas I had, so I started writing them down. When that wasn't enough, I started making videos. First for myself, then for the people around me, and now for you.

    Law school taught me to go to the source, so every story starts with the research and every video cites its sources. I began with the history of power because, for me, it's less about left or right and more about who holds the power, whom it serves, and what happens when it's abused.

    Next: more cinematic films for YouTube, a book I hope to publish one day, and many, many more stories.

    “The more we understand where we came from, the better we can imagine where we're going.”

    The rhythm

    Every week

    A week on Stories by Ronnie.

    1. News Radar

      The history behind the headlines

      Short, sharp reels that start with what's in the news this week and drop you into the history underneath it.

    2. The Weekend

      The main story

      The flagship reel: a secret agreement, a stolen border, a buried report. Each one teases the next.

    3. On YouTube

      The Witness

      Long-form cinematic episodes where I walk through the moment itself, one season at a time.

    • 01Stories you haven't heard, unbiased and as they happened.
    • 02Real people, named, on every side.
    • 03One buried detail that changes everything.
    • 04Every source cited. Always.

    Work with me

    Brands · Agencies · Institutions

    Let's tell your story.

    Brands don't get a one-off post here. They get a place inside appointment viewing, woven into a story people came for, never a bolted-on ad read.

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    Brand partnerships

    Integrated into the story

    Your brand placed naturally inside a Stories by Ronnie film, with distribution across Instagram, TikTok and YouTube Shorts.

    Commissioned films

    A film made for you

    Research, script, narration and cinematic animation for your own channels, or animation only if you bring the script.

    The audience

    • 35+nearly 9 in 10 viewers
    • US · UK · IN · CAtop countries
    • 6.5%engagement on Instagram

    Instagram insights, July 2026.