Eating For The Dead: The Jaga Bhramins | Death In India | Unique Stories from India

A community of professional mourners eating to ensure eternal peace for the deceased. The Jaga community, hailing from 12 villages in Bihar, have a rather unique profession. The entire community serve as professional mourners, going to the homes of the recently deceased. They sing praises for the deceased at the top of their lungs, eating rice flakes and curd. The bizzare ritual is said to ensure eternal peace for the deceased, granting them a pleasant journey into the next life. While singing praises, the mourners receive food, money, clothes and other belongings in exchange for their prayers. For generations, the Jaga community has been passing this profession down from father to son, but finally believe it is time for their children to take up new jobs. Subscribe to our channel : https://bit.ly/101_India Like us on Facebook :   / 101india   Follow us on Twitter :   / 101india   Follow us on Google+: https://plus.google.com/+101India/ Follow us on Instagram :   / 101india   Website : http://www.101india.com 101India is youth focused YouTube channel serving entertaining videos trying to connect urban Indian audiences. Created by a team of youth television experts, film makers, writers, bloggers, animators, designers. 101India aims to give you a mix of humor, music, travel, people profiles, alternate sports and food. We believe in embracing our differences and celebrating them because this keeps us unique and diverse. Satire and humor are powerful tools for social change and we use this in our content to create movements for change. We want to encourage a freer flow of information and dialogue and our human stories videos are based on culture, sub culture and counter culture.