Bengaluru CEO left helmet unlocked everywhere for 5 years. What his experiment revealed

The Bengaluru-based founder and CEO of BharatAgri has shared that he and his wife have a long-running experiment to check the city’s trustworthiness.

Updated on: Aug 14, 2026, 08:16:48 IST

By Sanya Jain

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The Bengaluru-based founder and CEO of BharatAgri has shared that he and his wife have a long-running experiment to check the city’s trustworthiness. Siddharth Dialani shared details of the experiment in an X post, where he also revealed that it has been going on for five years.

Siddharth Dialani is the founder and CEO of BharatAgri

The simple experiment involves the couple leaving their helmets unlocked on their two-wheeler every time they go out. According to Dialani, it’s a good way to check whether they live in a high-trust society.

Dialani, an IIT Madras graduate, also shared the results of the social experiment in his X post.

A social experiment in Bengaluru

“Me and my wife have been running a social experiment in Bangalore. Whenever we park our two wheeler in any area, we don't lock our helmets. We just keep it on the side mirror or on the seat,” he said.

“It's a low cost experiment to know if Bangalore is a high trust city or not,” the founder of BharatAgri claimed.

According to Dialani, their helmets have never been stolen in five years. “It has been 5 years and our helmets haven't been stolen yet!” he claimed in his X post.

A discussion on Bengaluru

Several people in the comments section agreed with Dialani and said that Bengaluru is a high-trust city.

“Strangers showing 'kindness' is very common in Bengaluru unlike other Indian cities,” a person wrote.

“100%. There is no other major city in India that even remotely compares. I personally believe that because the income disparity/standard of living disparity is so low, we all lead fairly similar lives, and as such, people have very little motivation to steal,” wrote X user Aarthi Iyengar.

Siddharth Dialani disagreed with this take, noting that Bengaluru has a high income disparity. “I think the income disparity is large enough. But somehow people have self dignity to not steal,” he said.

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Many, however, claimed that their helmets had been stolen in the tech hub of India. Others claimed that their helmets had not been stolen because they are low-cost items.

“I suspect the results would be the same in most cities. I don't think a helmet is something people would find worth stealing,” a user claimed.

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Sanya Jain
Sanya Jain is an Assistant Editor with Hindustan Times Digital. She has nearly a decade of experience in covering offbeat stories that speak to the everyday experience - from viral videos to human interest copies that spark conversation. Her interests stretch across business, pop culture, social media trends, entertainment and global affairs. Before joining Hindustan Times, Sanya spent two years with Moneycontrol and five years with NDTV. She holds an undergraduate degree in English literature from St Stephen’s College, Delhi, and a master’s in journalism from the Xavier Institute of Communications, Mumbai. Sanya has a sharp eye for spotting emerging trends and looking for newsworthy angles to elevate viral posts into meaningful narratives. She was the first one, for example, to cover Narayana Murthy’s remark on 70-hour work weeks that sparked a national conversation. She is equally at ease writing about business leaders as about the common man, about issues of national importance and memes that amuse social media. Sanya enjoys speaking with content creators, newsmakers and entrepreneurs to transform everyday moments into engaging, slice-of-life stories that resonate with readers. When she is not working, Sanya can be found curled up with a good book. Born and raised in Lucknow, she has spent the last several years in Delhi. She is deeply interested in animal welfare and now spends a lot of her time running after her destructive orange cat.Read More

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