India, July 19 -- In a sense, it is a war that never ended.

Hostilities have raged between North Korea and South Korea since 1950. India played a role as peacekeeper, in the early years. This forgotten slice of history was recently revived at an exhibition at Lalit Kala Akademi in Chennai.

In Limits of Change, a 70-minute "museum experience", the daughter of an army general who was involved in that effort merges memory, myth, fact and fiction to revisit his story.

Before we get to what visitors experienced, a bit of background.

At the end of World War 2, Korea, then a Japanese colony, was divided into two occupation zones. The North came under Soviet control, the South under the US. As in divided Germany, suspicion was rife and tensio...