The Department of English, Tezpur University, commemorates the 44th anniversary of Caryl Churchill's Top Girls (first staged at the Royal Court Theatre in London on 28 August 1982) through this Art Installation, inspired by the first act of the play and Judy Chicago's monumental 1979 feminist artwork The Dinner Party. 

Historically, women sitting, conversing, and sharing food together has been conspicuously absent from mainstream visual iconography. Caryl Churchill challenged this absence in the famous opening Act of Top Girls, bringing together five women from diverse eras, cultures, myth, and art to share a meal, a theatrical choice deeply inspired by Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party. This exhibit honours and celebrates the courage, resilience and excellence of select Indian women, who have been overlooked, silenced, or left unrecognised by patriarchal historical narratives. Unlike the play's mix of fictional and historical guests, this installation is exclusively of real historical figures, offering a physical space to commemorate their enduring legacies. The installation also exhibits some global and well-known icons.