Nikhil co-authored his first book ‘India’s Football Dream’ along with Shantanu Gupta which was published by SAGE Publications India. The foreword for the book was written by India's most decorated footballer Sunil Chhetri. The book opened to favorable reviews in several media outlets including reviews from Praful Patel, President of the AIFF and Gurpreet Singh Sandhu, India national football team goalkeeper and first Indian to play in the UEFA Europa League. The book is a modern-day guidebook to Indian football that extensively covers the journey Indian football has made from its inception till the biggest event till date, the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup.