What was the nationality of the person the film "Provoked" is loosely based on?
Kiranjit Ahluwalia Kiranjit Ahluwalia (born 1955) is an Indian woman who came to international attention after burning her husband to death in 1989 in the UK. She claimed it was in response to ten years of physical, psychological, and sexual abuse. After initially being convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison, Ahluwalia's conviction was later overturned on grounds of inadequate counsel and replaced with voluntary manslaughter. Although her submission of provocation failed (under "R v Duffy" the loss of control needed to be sudden, which this was not), she successfully pleaded the partial defence of diminished responsibility under s.2 Homicide Act 1957 on the grounds that fresh medical evidence (which was not available at her original trial) may indicate diminished mental responsibility.
Provoke (magazine) Provoke (Purovōku, プロヴォーク ), with its subtitle of "Provocative Materials for Thought" (Shisō no tame no chōhatsuteki shiryō 思想のための挑発的資料 ), was an experimental small press Japanese photography magazine founded in 1968 by critic/photographers and Takuma Nakahira, photographer Yutaka Takanashi, and writer . Daidō Moriyama joined with the second issue. "Provoke" was "a platform for a new photographic expression", "to free photography from subservience to the language of words", "that stood in opposition to the photography establishment". It was a quarterly magazine that also included poetry, criticism and photographic theory. Provoke has been described as having "lasted for only three issues" but with "profound effect upon Japanese photography in the 1970s and 80s," and is said to have "spread a completely new idea of photography in Japan."