Last few days have been celebratory times in Karnataka. To put it chronologically, the first celebration happened when Aravind Adiga was awarded the Man Booker prize. The second eruption happened with the announcement of the Bharat Ratna to music legend Pandit Bhimsen Joshi and the third was to mark the birth centenary of Indian-English novelist Raja Rao. You may stop me here and tell me that these three events did not propel celebrations in just Karnataka alone, but elsewhere in, and perhaps even outside,India too. That's true, but celebrations at 'home' are always seen as 'special', with an extra bounce of joy and deeper significance.