‘The gates of hell’

TWO years ago, many Filipinos were enraged over best-selling author Dan Brown’s depiction of Manila as “the gates of hell” in his novel “Inferno”. A fictional character in the book mentioned “six-hour traffic jams, suffocating pollution, horrifying sex trade.”

Filipinos who reacted strongly against the use of these offending words would now probably agree with Dan Brown especially if they get stuck in horrendous traffic jams almost anywhere in Metro Manila, not just in the city of Manila.