Pingali Gopal

Dr. Pingali Gopal, MS, MCh, FRCS, is a Paediatric and Neonatal Surgeon based in Warangal. Dr. Gopal was born in Assam and later, because of his father's work as an oil company geophysicist, moved successively to Calcutta (now Kolkata), Dehradun, Jammu, Ahmedabad, and Mumbai. He belongs to a Telugu-speaking family. He completed a major part of his schooling and medical education in Ahmedabad. Specialising further as a Paediatric Surgeon from Mumbai and Birmingham, UK, he returned to India and settled in Warangal-Hanamakonda. He writes on matters concerning Indian culture in various online magazines such as Pragyata, IndicaToday, B?hat, and Indiafacts. In trying to understand Indian culture, he is a follower of stalwarts like Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa, Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo, Sri Ramana Maharishi, Anand Coomaraswamy, and?in more recent times?Michel Danino, Vishwa Adluri, Chittaranjan Naik, and SN Balagangadhara. He also dabbles in short stories and has recently published a collection of stories, From Here to the Stars. He has been living and practicing in Hanamkonda-Warangal, Telangana, since 1999