Gopinath was born on 13 November 1922 in Bellary,[REF] a historic city with many neolithic archaeological sites,[REF] in the south Indian state of Karnataka to Sundaramma and Nagarur Narayana Rao [REF].
The move to CMCH gave Gopinath the opportunity to interact with some of the noted medical doctors in India such as A. K. Basu, Meherji Mehta and B. L. Gupta [REF].