Available for collaboration · India, remote worldwide

Likhith D Kunder

Research-driven scripts for YouTube documentaries on geopolitics, banking fraud, infrastructure, and internet culture. Built to hold an audience, not just inform one.

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About

"The story is always inside the material. My job is to find it and make the audience feel it before they understand it."

I am a freelance documentary scriptwriter specialising in investigative long-form video. My work sits at the intersection of primary research, systems thinking, and narrative structure built for retention, not just comprehension.

I have written on Sri Lanka's debt crisis, a ₹590 crore banking fraud, India's LPG supply chain, semiconductor geopolitics, and the racial anxiety behind one of America's fastest-growing suburbs. If there is a system failing, a power shifting, or a real story buried in a government report, I find the angle that makes someone stay.

I also write personal essay scripts for creators building audiences around lived experience confessional, specific, and deliberately unpolished where polish would cost authenticity.

Best For
  • Documentary & video essay channels
  • Geopolitics & economics creators
  • Investigative / scam / finance content
  • Internet culture & ARG breakdowns
  • Personal growth & authentic storytelling
Services
  • YouTube Documentary Scripts
  • Personal Essay Scripts
  • Investigative & News Writing
  • Short-Form Reel Scripts
  • Podcast & Interview Scripts
  • Blog & Long-Form Essays
Featured Scripts
Documentary Geopolitics
01
The Indian Ocean's $50 Billion Trap
How Sri Lanka's debt crisis became the frontline of China and India's battle for control of the Indian Ocean. Built on multilayered geopolitical research, debt-trap dynamics, port strategy, regional power shifts.
Investigative Finance & Fraud
02
The IDFC First Family Scam
Inside a ₹590 crore banking fraud involving government funds and internal bank officials. Full source documentation, narrative structured around institutional failure and human culpability.
Investigative Immigration
03
Frisco, Texas The 'Indian' City Causing Anxiety
Named one of America's safest cities two years running. So why are people showing up to city council meetings in Punisher masks? A script on racial anxiety, demographic shift, and the question America keeps avoiding.
Documentary Mystery / ARG
04
The Night That Never Ended: The Sun Vanished
A 7+ minute script with production timeline, visual direction, and SFX cue notes, deep lore breakdown of one of the internet's most acclaimed ARG series. Same research depth, completely different emotional register.
Documentary Geopolitics
05
India's Quiet Global Integration
Churchill called India the jewel of the British Empire. Today the building where he planned the Second World War is owned by an Indian company. A documentary script tracing how India has been quietly buying back the world.
Personal Essay Growth
06
Why I Kept Deleting My Videos
On accent insecurity and the version of yourself you keep erasing before anyone else gets to see it. Built from real creator experience, confessional, specific, deliberately unpolished where polish would cost authenticity.
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Scripts Written
5
Categories
8+
Months Experience
Research Hours
Ongoing Collaboration
No Guidebook
An active scriptwriting partnership for a personal growth YouTube channel. Every script is built from the creator's real experiences, four months unemployed, a newborn at home, accent insecurity, the slow process of showing up anyway.
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Scripts Delivered
Script 01
Why I Kept Deleting My Videos
On accent insecurity and the version of yourself you keep erasing before anyone else gets to see it.
Script 02
The Art of Being Disciplined Anyway
The real distinction between motivation (a feeling) and discipline (a decision made before the feeling arrives).
Script 08
The Version We're Waiting For
On the future self we keep stalling for anchored by Kierkegaard's backwards-forwards observation.
How I Work
01
Research before everything
Government reports, academic papers, financial filings, not just Wikipedia. Every claim is traceable. The script's authority comes from the research, not the narration style.
02
Thesis before draft
A documentary isn't a summary of a topic. It's an argument about one. Before writing a word, I identify the central tension, the thing that makes an audience feel the stakes personally.
03
Structure built for retention
Good hooks. Escalating stakes. Deliberate pacing. Every section earns the next. The goal is a script where the editor has to fight the urge to keep watching while cutting.
04
Voice that matches the creator
I don't have a house style I impose on every client. I study how you talk, what you've published, and what your audience expects, then I write in that register, better.
05
Revisions until it's right
Scripts go through multiple drafts. I'm not protective of my first instincts, I'm protective of the final result. Feedback is fuel, not friction.
Experience
Jan 2026 — Present
Scriptwriter — No Guidebook
YouTube Personal Growth Channel · Ongoing
  • Writing all scripts for an active personal essay YouTube channel (8+ scripts, ongoing)
  • Confessional, autobiographical video essays built around the creator's real experiences
  • Developing a consistent editorial voice across the channel's entire content arc
Jan 2026 — Present
Freelance Investigative Documentary Scriptwriter
YouTube & Digital Media · Remote
  • Production-ready scripts for documentary, investigative, ARG, and current affairs channels
  • Long-form scripts on geopolitics, banking fraud, immigration, and energy crises
  • Short-form reel scripts for social media creators and brand clients
Oct 2025 — Present
Contributing Writer
News & Digital Publications
  • Investigative articles on geopolitics, energy crises, and financial fraud
  • Long-form essays on digital culture, personal reflection, and financial literacy
  • Research-driven news scripts for digital-first audiences
Get In Touch

Let's build
something real.

Open to freelance projects, long-term channel partnerships, and ongoing collaborations. I work best with creators who want depth.

Best suited for
  • Documentary channels — geopolitics, economics, scams, infrastructure
  • Investigative creators who need sourced, argument-led scripts
  • Personal essay channels built around authentic experience
  • Video essayists — culture, internet history, mystery