{"id":279,"date":"2018-02-10T00:55:25","date_gmt":"2018-02-10T00:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iddawela.com\/blog\/?page_id=279"},"modified":"2018-04-04T03:25:13","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T03:25:13","slug":"nimanthi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iddawela.com\/?page_id=279","title":{"rendered":"Nimanthi Bowala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nimanthi (1979) is the eldest of 3 children of Ananda Thilaka Bowala (Eldest Bowala) and granddaughter of Nandawathie (6th of 13 Iddawelas). She studied at St. Paul&#8217;s girls school, Milagiriya, Colombo and worked for Mihin Lanka Airline.\u00a0 She married Kositha Usgodaarachchi\u00a0in 2009 and have a son Nethula (2013).<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/iddawela.com\/Bowala\/Copy%20of%20DSC05557.JPG\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<div data-carousel-extra='{\"blog_id\":1,\"permalink\":\"https:\\\/\\\/iddawela.com\\\/?page_id=279\"}' id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-279 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/iddawela.com\/?attachment_id=1922'><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1922\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/iddawela.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/bowala-nimanthi-mihin.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"718,716\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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