In the intensive care unit ward at Jaipur’s Sawai Man Singh Hospital, Badri Prasad, a 40-year-old man is lying on a bed. He is diagnosed with cardiomyopathy, a disease of the heart muscle that makes it harder for the organ to pump blood. Prasad’s eyes are sunken, his face is pallid. Weakness has besieged his body and his cheekbones are prominently visible. One can count his ribs, protruding through his black t-shirt, as his bosom heaves and gasps for breath. With each breath, Prasad, an ailing tempo driver from Rajasthan’s Hanumangarh, is inching closer to death. In the ward, dimly lit with white, fluorescent overhead bulbs and smelling of disinfectants and phenyl, Prasad is fighting a battle against time. He is waiting for a new heart.