Running into a "polite" wall of state resistance in Gujarat, Arundhati Roy and a group of anti-Narmada dam activists are thinking of re-routing the "rally for the valley" campaign. The Madhya Pradesh government had requested Gujarat to let the activists pass through the state for tomorrow's Jalsindhi rally being organised by Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar. Jalsindhi is in Madhya Pradesh, but the river route through Gujarat offers a short-cut.