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Tried various things
I have been living in US for 7 years now and I have been regularly sending money to India.

During this time, I have tried several methods to send money to India.

Disclaimer: Following are just my views from my own experiences and I don't have interest of any kind of any company.

Western Union: They charged me $39 and exchange rate was quite poor.

Citibank Rupee Checking Account: I never tried this because I don't want to open Rupee account and keep $1000 in Rupees just to transfer money.

Cashier's check(something similar to demand draft in India) from First Union. I had to go to bank and get it done. They charged me $15 to do it. Then I mailed it to my father. He deposited it in the local bank who in turn sent it to some bank in Bombay and then I guess they might have sent it to US for clearance and then my father got money after long time. And my father's bank charged some money to do iti.

remit2india: When I did it, online application was quite buggy. It timed out, gave errors and I was quite worried whether I got charged, whether money would be sent etc. I am not sure what the status is.

money2india: Finally, I found this. So far, this has worked out best. I asked my father to open an account in ICICI bank. I registered online (I did not open any bank account with them.) I have given them all the details of my bank in US. And whenever, I want to transfer money, it takes less than 5 minutes to do it. And, currently, I have set up automatic transfer of x amount of money every month to be remitted to my father for maintenance. This has worked best to me so far.
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