India’s oldest continuously inhabited cities and how to reach here

In India, there are places where ancient kingdoms, sacred rituals, crowded bazaars and modern traffic still exist on the same streets that people walked thousands of years ago. These are not abandoned ruins or archaeological memories frozen in time. They are living cities, loud, layered and constantly moving, where temples still ring with prayers, markets still overflow, and rivers still shape everyday life just as they did centuries ago. Here are five such cities that have remained continuously inhabited for centuries, where the past never fully left.