Kalaimamani Sarayu Sai
The girl who taught herself to dance. In early-1980s Dindigul there was no Bharatanatyam teacher to be found — so a young Sarayu learned the art from video tapes and went on to perform 200+ recitals — from the Chennai sabhas to Tirumala Tirupati, Mamallapuram, Chidambaram, the Delhi Tamil Sangam and the temple stages of Shirdi, Guruvayur and Vadakkunnathan. For 28 years she has run Srishti Gurucool in Besant Nagar, training hundreds of dancers and presenting 30+ of them at their arangetrams, the classical solo debut. That arc — of learning without access, then spending a lifetime granting it — is why she co-founded mitra music: to give underserved girls in Tamil Nadu's Tier-B and Tier-C towns the teacher she never had. She is the mission's cultural spine. bharathanatyam.in
Kountinya Sai (Kount)
Brother of Kalaimamani Sarayu Sai and father of Mitra Kountinya. Tamizhan, born in Dindigul; U.S. citizen; ICF-credentialed coach. Three decades in digital media — from the team that built sify.com and sifymall.com in the late '90s, to global ad sales for Cricbuzz, to co-founding harmoney.ai, a gamified wallet for teens — including 15 years helping Indian startups go to market in the U.S. He is co-founder & co-CEO of Tern and co-founder & Head of Sales & Marketing at DigiDoGG. His LAKSH-YA framework is the human OS beneath the Mitty curriculum. He splits his life between Carlsbad & Kodaikanal. Visit unleashthefiero.com for more details.
Mahima Chandra
Helping people grow. Mahima coaches the Mitty Sisters toward emotional fitness. An ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC) trained in Acceptance & Commitment Therapy and Gabor Maté's Compassionate Inquiry, she is the founder of Coaching with Mahima. She brings 18+ years of building products, most recently nearly seven years at Grab in Singapore, after Practo in Bangalore and Mu Sigma, and is co-founder and Product Head of DigiDoGG. She is an IIT Bombay chemical engineer, based in Bangkok.
Sandra Rohan
A member of mitra music's Board of Advisors since August 2026, and Advisor at St. Peter's International School, Kodaikanal, since 2023. She holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai (Finance major, Operations minor), and a B.Com in Accounting & Finance from Madras Christian College, and spent nearly five years at Cognizant in financial operations and operational excellence. She keeps the numbers and the processes as disciplined as the mission.
Mitty Sister · Creative & UX · Cohort lead
Nasrin Mubina
Founding cohort lead. Self-taught through YouTube and sheer will, she turns care into craft. She is a Product Architect at DigiDoGG and a Go-To-Market Tern at Tern.
“If I grow, I want to help five more girls grow. Those five can inspire fifty.”
