VelocityViewServlet : Error processing the template

Invocation of method 'paginateFeed' in class com.attain.application.velocity.FeedTool threw exception class java.lang.NullPointerException : null

java.lang.NullPointerException
	at com.attain.application.velocity.FeedTool.paginateFeed(FeedTool.java:41)
	at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor63.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
	at org.apache.velocity.util.introspection.UberspectImpl$VelMethodImpl.invoke(UberspectImpl.java:267)
	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTMethod.execute(ASTMethod.java:197)
	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTReference.execute(ASTReference.java:175)
	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTReference.value(ASTReference.java:327)
	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTExpression.value(ASTExpression.java:51)
	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTSetDirective.render(ASTSetDirective.java:95)
	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.SimpleNode.render(SimpleNode.java:230)
	at org.apache.velocity.Template.merge(Template.java:256)
	at org.apache.velocity.tools.view.servlet.VelocityViewServlet.performMerge(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.velocity.tools.view.servlet.VelocityViewServlet.mergeTemplate(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.velocity.tools.view.servlet.VelocityViewServlet.doRequest(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.velocity.tools.view.servlet.VelocityViewServlet.doGet(Unknown Source)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:690)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:175)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:128)
	at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
	at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:563)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
	at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:263)
	at org.apache.jk.server.JkCoyoteHandler.invoke(JkCoyoteHandler.java:190)
	at org.apache.jk.common.HandlerRequest.invoke(HandlerRequest.java:283)
	at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.invoke(ChannelSocket.java:767)
	at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.processConnection(ChannelSocket.java:697)
	at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket$SocketConnection.runIt(ChannelSocket.java:889)
	at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:690)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)