How teaching Urdu to her granddaughters gave this grandmother purpose in a pandemic Retired school teacher Zahida Murtaza was feeling adrift and purposeless during the pandemic. Then one of her granddaughters asked if she could giver her Urdu lessons. Social Sharing CBC Radio · Posted: Feb 11, 2021 2:11 PM ET | Last Updated: February 12 Zahida Murtaza and Marium Vahed, pictured on computer monitor, say Urdu lessons have strengthened their grandmother-daughter bond. (Hasan Murtaza)