Press Kit — Building Abundance

Ravinder Nath Bhalla, MD · Book Five of The Abundance Series · Published 2026

The pitch

A nine-year-old girl in Chicago watches her father and uncle taken by the police and asks why. Her mother says: because we are poor and Black, that is just how it is. The girl says: I don't think that is just how it is. I think somebody decided that is how it is. Building Abundance, the fifth volume in psychiatrist Ravinder Nath Bhalla's clinical and policy series, is the answer to her question — a twenty-nine chapter, ninety-proposal evidence-based blueprint for the society the abundance orientation builds, written by a practitioner who spent thirty-four years inside the systems the book describes.

Suggested angles

For health and mental health press: Thirty-four years of psychiatric practice applied to policy. What the underfunding of mental health infrastructure costs patients and providers, and what the evidence says works.

For legal press: The DeShaney thread — why the Constitution's silence on affirmative obligations is the load-bearing structure of every policy failure the book documents, and what the Thurgood Marshall equal protection architecture offers as a way through.

For policy and political press: The machine that is not failing. The election system as the master switch. The child test as governance instrument.

For general interest: The Chicago girl's question. Thirty-four years in the room. The pacemaker. The book that closes: Be no longer empty.

Sample passages available upon request

— The Prologue: five children, five countries, one question — Chapter 7 opening: thirty-four years in the room — Chapter 12 opening: the patient who told me in the third year — The Reckoning: closing chapter — A Note — An Afterthought: Elizabeth and the architects of the machine

Author availability

Ravinder Nath Bhalla, MD is available for podcast interviews, print and online interviews, keynote and panel appearances, and professional development presentations.

Contact via the Contact page.