The farmers of India have been toiling on the front lines of climate change and crony capitalism for decades. In Prabhakar Pachpute’s home state of Maharashtra, in western India, more than 32,000 farmers committed suicide between 2001 and 2019, as recurring droughts, a depleted water table, and low crop prices have coincided to make loans too onerous to repay and their livelihoods impossible. Born into a family of farmers—who, after some were forced to sell their land, also became a family of coal miners—the artist channels the grievances of neglected laborers into his charcoal-drawn murals and sculptures that depict the twin exploitation of the earth’s natural resources and its human population.