Pingali Lakshmi Narasamma was a dynamic personality who, in spite of indifferent health throughout her life, contributed significantly to society around her and was a motivating force for the education of her children and the writings of her husband.

In Tirupati, she established a women’s association—Sri Padmavathi Prarthana Mahila Mandali—to provide some avocation to women.
She believed that women should have activities beyond their households. She managed to get sufficient funds from the government to establish the association and give it a good start.  The association is still in existence. It is on Narasimha Teertham Road.
She also brought together the women of the association and took them touring to Kashmir and Sri Lanka. She was the first person in
this branch of the Pingali family to possess a passport. She believed that both Hindi and English were important languages and passed
some examinations in Hindi. She insisted that her children should know English and had tutors engaged, especially for her second son,
who had an Anglo-Indian teacher come home to give him English lessons.
She wrote a novel called Pacchani Samsaaram in Telugu which was published posthumously by her husband in 1970.
She was a very devout lady and completed the Rama Koti which is enshrined on Tirumala hill. She was born on Vinayaka Chaturthi
and merged in her Rama on Sri Rama Navami.