India, Dec. 27 -- "Every ship has an expiry date," declares Himanshu Jamod explaining the working of the world's largest ship dismantling yard in Alang, Gujarat. Jamod should know. The 32-year-old visual artist born in the port town of Bhavnagar has been watching ships arrive in Alang, only an hour's drive from his home, ever since he was a little boy. Also read | Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025: Galaxy of young and emerging artists to present work from the grassroots

As a child curious about ships, Jamod would often accompany his father, a dockyard worker in Bhavnagar, and an uncle who worked in the Alang Ship Breaking Yard, to their workplaces.

"The Bhavnagar port is an old port built in the 18th century. The Alang Ship Breaking Yard came...