Anthropologists have always had an uneasy yet necessary relationship with administrators , from the colonial period to the present, where anthropological insights have been seen as both necessary as well as an irritant to administrative goals. The main hurdles have been the friction between anthropological perspectives on social justice, equality and fairness in dispensation with the inherited baggage of deep seated prejudices and a tendency towards acceptance of structural inequalities by those in power. The anthropologist's task to educate and inform the administrators towards sensitivity towards the marginal and oppressed is therefore not always well taken especially if it clashes with homophobia, Xenophobia and an inherent belief in the inferiority of those who are victims. In this paper I discuss the experiences that I had with trying to teach gender sensitivity to senior government officials, those in police and the judiciary. The experience indicated the frightening gap between expectations of social justice and the intervening factors of received values of sexism, casteism and distrust of those perceived as 'others' or 'inferiors'. It also indicates how important are critical anthropological perspectives that decode the realities underlying acceptance of social injustices as natural and necessary. It is imperative that critical analytical skills are inculcated in the young people before they grow up to have fixed ideas about society that are not in tune with what one would expect in the cause of social justice and fairness and a humane world.