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Raghavendra Patil (b.1951) belongs to the postmodernist group of writers in Kannada. Like his predecessors, U.R. Anantamurthy, Yahvant Chittal, Tejasvi and Shantinath Desai, he arrived at the novel through the short story. The Chariot (Teru), which won him the Sahitya Akademi Award, is his second novel. Though Patil belongs to the postmodern era, he does not share the thematic concerns or techniques of Western postmodernism. He is closer to the nativistic movement, which has already produced major writers like Chandrasekhar Kambar and Kum. Veerabhadrappa. He has also inherited some of the qualities of his famous uncle Anandakanda, such as an interest in local history and closeness to rural life. The story that Patil tells in The Chariot spans more than a hundred and fifty years, beginning with the years when the Peshva extended his rule to North Karnataka and ending with the years after the Emergency, and it relates to the Belagavi region, with its epicentre in an imagined but fully realised village named Dharamanatti. The novel offers two images of Teru, which in Kannada means both the chariot and the festival associated with it. The first is centred on an atrocious human sacrifice made in the name of religion by an autocratic ruler, and the second, distanced in time by a century and a half, mirrors the change from the feudal order to a democratic one, where religious superstition and feudal practices have been replaced by scepticism and the politics of power. The novel is remarkable for its innovative technique, which handles myth and reality with equal success.

एक महान् कृति, भारतीय समाज और परिवार के विकास की विविध दिशाओं और रूपों का एक विराट एवं प्रभावोत्पादक चित्र। -डॉ. एस.एन. गणेशन निकट अतीत के चित्रों का एक एलबम—वह अतीत जिसे वर्तमान पीढ़ी को न भूलना चाहिए और न जिससे विमुख ही होना चाहिए, क्योंकि उसी में हमारे नए जीवन का बीजारोपण हुआ था। परिवार के चित्रों के एलबम के विपरीत इस एलबम के चित्र धुँधले नहीं पड़े हैं, क्योंकि कैमरा एक ही रहा है। लैंसों का प्रयोग इस कुशलता से किया गया है कि चित्र बिल्कुल साफ़ और हूबहू अंकित हुए हैं, दूरी ने उन्हें धुँधला नहीं किया है, भावातिरेक या दुःख ने विकृत नहीं किया है। —जगदीशचन्द्र माथुर