Nidhi Agarwal is an Indian founder, emotional wellbeing advocate, personality development coach, and wellness professional based in Kolkata, West Bengal. She is the Founder and CEO of Kartavyalife, an emotional wellbeing startup focused on creating safe, judgment-free spaces for students, young professionals, founders, and individuals seeking emotional support and personal growth.
Overview
Nidhi Agarwal is known for her work in emotional wellbeing, mental health awareness, personality development, and community-led support initiatives. Through Kartavyalife, she works toward making conversations around emotions, mental health, life skills, and self-awareness more accessible and acceptable in everyday society.
Her work focuses on helping people feel heard, understood, and valued. Kartavyalife promotes the idea that emotional support, listening, empathy, and safe human connection are essential for personal development and mental wellbeing.
Early Life and Education
Nidhi Agarwal completed her Bachelor’s degree in Science with Economics from Shri Shikshayatan College, Kolkata, between 2018 and 2021. During her college years, she participated in academic and extracurricular activities including wall magazine presentations, youth leadership programs, workshops, and Model United Nations.
She completed her higher secondary education at Agrasain Balika Shiksha Sadan, where she studied science and was actively involved in school events, debates, science exhibitions, and youth-focused programs.
Career
Kartavyalife
In August 2021, Nidhi Agarwal founded Kartavyalife, an emotional wellbeing startup based in West Bengal. The platform focuses on mental health awareness, emotional literacy, personality development, safe conversations, and community-building initiatives.
Kartavyalife works with students, young adults, founders, and communities through sessions, meetups, awareness events, and safe-space initiatives. Its activities include programs such as PeerSpace, Founders Unfiltered, emotional wellness conversations, student-focused meetups, and street awareness campaigns.
Solvimania
Before founding Kartavyalife, Nidhi worked as a part-time tutor at Solvimania from October 2020 to September 2021, where she taught science and mathematics to higher secondary students, mainly from classes 9 to 12.
Kartavyalife
Kartavyalife is positioned as an emotional wellbeing and personality development platform. Its mission is to create spaces where people can express themselves without judgment, build empathy, develop communication skills, and gain emotional clarity.
The platform focuses on:
- Mental health awareness
- Emotional intelligence
- Personality development
- Student wellness
- Founder wellbeing
- Safe and judgment-free conversations
- Life skills and communication
- Community support
- Empathy and active listening
Kartavyalife also provides services such as Talk to a Friend and Talk to a Therapist, aiming to make emotional support and therapy more accessible and affordable.
Major Initiatives
Founders Unfiltered
Founders Unfiltered is a Kartavyalife initiative designed for startup founders, entrepreneurs, creators, and business leaders. Unlike traditional startup events focused on pitches and business metrics, Founders Unfiltered creates a confidential and emotionally safe space for founders to discuss challenges such as burnout, self-doubt, anxiety, failure, uncertainty, and the emotional realities of building a business.
PeerSpace
PeerSpace is a student and youth-focused initiative by Kartavyalife, created to encourage meaningful conversations, real human connection, emotional intelligence, confidence, empathy, and self-reflection among young people. The initiative aims to help students move beyond screen-based communication and experience deeper in-person interactions.
Certifications
Nidhi Agarwal holds a Depression Counselling Diploma: Advanced Level Accredited certification from Udemy, issued in January 2021.
Volunteering
Nidhi has been associated with social and youth-focused initiatives. She has served as a member of the Youth Wing at Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram West Bengal since 2015. She also worked as Coordinator of Volunteers at NCPEDP from August 2019 to February 2020, contributing to awareness and inclusion initiatives related to disability and human rights.
Recognition
Nidhi Agarwal has been featured as part of Global Women of Distinction 100 – 2026 by IndusTreeBiz, recognizing her work in mental wellness, community building, emotional empowerment, and safe-space creation through Kartavyalife.
Public Philosophy
Nidhi’s work is rooted in the belief that people need spaces where they can feel safe, heard, and understood. Her approach emphasizes listening without judgment, emotional awareness, kindness, and the importance of human connection in a world increasingly shaped by digital communication and social pressure.
She advocates for making mental health conversations more practical, human, and accessible, especially for students, young professionals, and founders.