Women from Maheshwar village threaten to commit suicide in the Narmada river. A government project to raise the height of the massive Sardar Sarovar Dam threatens to submerge 60 villages along the river.

Arundhati Roy is showered with petals. She has called for alternative ways of achieving the government's goals, such as rain water storage, building irrigation canals and finding other power-generating sources.

Critics says the building of the dam will displace about 250,000 people, many of them tribal groups.

Villagers in Domkhedi - one of the tribal villages that will be submerged by rising waters in the coming monsoon season.

Arundhati Roy jumps from boat to boat during the "Rally for the Valley" march to the Narmada Dam.