Malati Devi Choudhury (née Sen) (26 July 1904 – 15 March 1998) was an Indian civil rights and freedom activist and Gandhian.

In an article entitled 'Reminiscences of Santiniketan', her mother had written: "Malati was very happy and benefited much from her residence at Viswa-Bharati as a student.

They were Manjushree, Surekha (who later on became her sister-in-law), Eva, Satyabati, Latika, Saraju, Tapasi, Amita (mother of Professor Amartya Sen) and herself.

They attended classes in the open under trees, learnt embroidery, handicrafts, music, dancing, painting and gardening.

Leonard Knight Elmhirst, an Englishman, was in charge of the Agricultural Institute at Surul in Sriniketan, and he used to encourage them to learn gardening.

Miss Stella Kramisch, who came to India on Gurudev's invitation, taught them the principles of Indian Art and dancing.

As a young student there, she was quite famous for her outgoing personality, taking active part in Gurudev's dance dramas and music sessions, as well as being the source of innocent mischiefs in the community.

[citation needed] At this time, a young man, Nabakrushna Choudhuri, from a well known Zamindar family of Odisha, came to Santiniketan as a student.

Malati got engaged to and later married Nabakrushna Choudhury, who later became the Chief Minister of Odisha and the two left Santiniketan in 1927.This proved to be a turning point in her life.

The Chaudhuris settled in a small village named Anakhia, now in Jagatsinghpur District of Orissa, where her husband started improved sugarcane cultivation.

[citation needed] Proverbial courage, sheer dynamism and a strong zeal to fight for the rights of the oppressed and have-nots were the dominant features of her character.

[citation needed] She had organized the 'Krusaka Andolana' (Farmers Movement) as part of the freedom struggle against the zamindars and moneylenders, who exploited the poor.

[citation needed] A dynamic person like her did not slow down her efforts after the Bajiraut Chhatravas, Utkal Navajeevan Mandal and the Postbasic School at Champatimunda, near Angul, were established.