When you have lived as fully and openly as poet, professor, and gay Indian icon of a generation, Hoshang Merchant, what secrets are there left to tell? Plenty, as it turns out.

And in 'All My Masters: An East-West Encounter', Merchant tells the story of the times and places and people that have made him. Many of them are famous; some of them - until now - barely known. In this wild ride across the Middle East, Europe, the United States, and back to India, Merchant describes himself as 'homeless for 20 years. And yet, it is always clear that he knows exactly who he is.

By turns sharply insightful, wickedly funny, poetic, and tender, 'All My Masters: An East-West Encounter' tells the story of a 'homosexual Parsi, Christian by education, Hindu by culture, Sufi by persuasion'. Any one of those journeys would be enough for most people. However, Hoshang Merchant embraces all of them. And in giving himself the freedom to do so, he hopes to liberate others like him.

Exhilarating and courageous in its honesty, 'All My Masters' is the unforgettable story of many lives in one.