Brinda Karat (Bengali: বৃন্দা কারাট) (born 17 October 1947)^[1] is a communist politician from India, elected to the Rajya Sabha as a Communist Party of India (Marxist) CPI(M) member, on 11 April 2005 for West Bengal.

In 2005, she became the first woman member of the CPI(M) Politburo ^[2]. She has also been the general secretary of the All India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA) from 1993 to 2004 ^[3][4], and thereafter its Vice President ^[5].