He travelled and worked as a correspondent for a few years, which provided material for his career as a writer of fiction, under his own name and also as A M Kabal and John Ford.
"[2] Indeed, although he published in quick succession three thrillers—The Adversary (1986) and Bad Money (1987), and Zero Yield—the next few years were spent largely on travels to Egypt, Mexico and Latin America.
[3] While there, he also developed an obsession with climbing bridges, which led to his arrest while making an assault on the Golden Gate, San Francisco.
After leaving Imprint, Bhabra struggled to make ends meet with occasional freelance magazine and television work.
Television projects included the show Starting Up!, about the challenges and rewards of opening a business, which he created and produced for TVO.
Bhabra had encouraged Ledson to pursue her dream of running her own school, Laurel Academy, which she established in Toronto in 1995.
On 1 June 2000, a week before his 45th birthday, he killed himself by jumping off the Prince Edward Viaduct which spans the Don River, connecting Toronto's Bloor Street to Danforth Avenue.
[5] Bhabra wrote letters shortly before killing himself in which he revealed he had misrepresented important elements of his life.
[6] In addition to acknowledging that he had not been making any progress in his writing, he revealed he did not have legal residence status in Canada.