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TOI correspondant from Washington: Some two centuries after Tipu Sultan's Mysore projectiles, parlayed by the British into Congreve missiles, led Francis Scott Key to note the "rocket's red glare" in the Star Spangled Banner, the US capital is about to discover that fireworks, no matter where they come from, are no fun on a fiendishly hot summer night.

When we walk through one of the public forests across the British countryside, we may picture a familiar woodland scene. We look up at the towering, perfectly straight trunks rising in uniform columns, watch the sunlight filter through a dense evergreen canopy, and listen to the peaceful quiet of an expansive wooded landscape.