or TNQ, CSR initiatives are central to the organisational culture. TNQ supports worthy causes in the areas of Higher Education, Education and Community and Environment.

Higher Education
As Sponsor of the ‘Cell Press-TNQ India Distinguished Lectureship Series’, TNQ promotes interaction between great contemporary biological scientists and students of biology in India, its teachers, researchers, and policy makers. The lecture series is a platform for inspirational interaction.

Featured speakers:

Professor Shinya Yamanaka, 2012.

Nobel Laureate Elizabeth Blackburn, 2009.

Nobel Laureate David Baltimore, 2008.

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As a Co-Sponsor of the 125th anniversary celebrations (2011-12) of mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan with the Indian Mathematical Society, TNQ hosted a lecture by Prof. Robert Kanigel, the biographer of Ramanujan in Chennai on December 26, 2011.

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Education and Community
Performing Arts

TNQ provides annual scholarships to students of dance studying at Attakkalari, Bengaluru. The students are invariably from underprivileged backgrounds and they often lack formal education otherwise. Financial support then becomes that much more necessary.

Journalism
Every year, a student of the Asian College of Journalism, the region's premier institution for media studies, gets a scholarship. Media studies are intrinsically more expensive, making the financial support that much more relevant.

Community

TNQ supports an Integrated Child Development Centre run by the Government to provide nutrition and education to young children, young mothers and mothers-to-be. The Centre supported by TNQ, located in an economically backward region within the urban landscape, was nominated for a State Award.

Karunaii Trust, a school for the differently abled, receives longterm support from TNQ. The administrative staff of the Trust are treated as employees of TNQ and some of the children, when ready, are absorbed into the payroll of TNQ, to the extent possible.

Tiger Watch

Tiger Watch is a Non Governmental Organization (NGO) whose primary objective is the conservation and protection of wildlife, at Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve, Rajasthan.
Mr. F. S. Rathore, formerly the Field Director, Ranthambhore National Park, and other prominent conservationists run this organization. Tiger Watch has been constituted with the idea of augmenting the resources of the Forest Department to combat various problems faced in the management of the Reserve.

TNQ supports Tiger Watch, an NGO that examines and shapes policies and practices related to Tiger conservation, tribal populations and Governance.

When tsunami struck on December 26, 2004, TNQ intervened to put fishing villages near Chennai back on track, distributing nets and boats. Every employee of TNQ contributed. The company contributed a multiple of the collection.

All of Tamil Nadu, was inundated in November-December 2005, leading to loss of life, livelihood and property. TNQ intervened in a village about 60 km north-north west of Chennai, near the industrial town of Gummidipoondi and helped set up an embroidery unit that provides livelihood support to around 50 families in the village.