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Comprehension: (From 161 to 170) Read the passage given below and answer the following questions based on it. In the early 1970s, when the world of Hindustani classical music was swept by the Kishori Amonkar wave, an HMV record, Night Melodies by Prabha Atre, a 43-year-old singer from Pune, made a splash. Comprising three presentations-Raag Maru Bihag, Raag Kalavati and a thumri in Mishra Khamaj- that cut across gharanas, the record struck a chord with classical music enthusiasts across the country. The piece de resistance was a bandish in Raag Kalavati, Tan man dhan, which has become one of the raga's most poplar renditions-mush like Kishori Amonkar's stellar presentation of another specimen of night music, Raag Bhoop. Atre, the Kirana gharana doynne and among the more progressive Hindustani classical music artist passed away in Pune at 91, just before she was to leave for Mumbai for a concert. She spent her life not just upholding the classical tradition but also questioning it. Describing the idea of singing a raga at a particular time as redundant, Atre didn't want to live in the inwardly world of sadhana alone. Riyaaz mattered, but so did her audience. She also liked delineating a raga through the use of sargam, considered declasses in the serious world of Hindustani khayal gayaki-also the topic of her PhD thesis. After questioning the system- like Amonkar and Kumar Gandharva-Atre decided to speak about it through her books, conversations, performances and lectures, riling many musicians and critics with her rebel attitude. Identify the structure of the given passage.

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